Landmarks
Landmarks of the Nebraska Territory (East-to-west order) | |||||
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Name | Nearest town | Details | |||
Audubon Spring Creek Prairie | Denton | ||||
Rock Creek Station | Endicott | A Pony Express Station and now a State Historical Park. Setting of an 1861 gunfight between David McCanles and Wild Bill Hickok. | |||
Oak Grove Station | Oak | A Pony Express station is marked by a monument commemorating an 1864 Indian battle called the Little Blue Raid. | |||
Simonton-Smith wagon train attack site | Hastings | First fatal action of the Indian War of 1864. | |||
Spring Ranch | Pauline | A stagecoach stop, trading post and village. | |||
Susan Hail Grave | Kenesaw | Died 2 June 1852, probably of cholera. Many emigrants, including William Woodhams, described her grave. Her grief-stricken husband returned to St. Joseph for a tombstone and moved it by wheelbarrow back to this location. | |||
Fort Kearny (Fort Childs) | Kearney | An open fort made of sod and adobe, and located south of the Platte River. | |||
Midway Station | Gothenburg | Built in 1855 as a trading post before being used as an Overland stage station and Pony Express station. Mark Twain referenced it in his 1872 novel, Roughing It, as did Charles Dawson and Mattes & Henderson. | |||
Cottonwood Springs | Maxwell | The only good water along the trails in either direction. | |||
Fort McPherson | Maxwell | Important during the Indian Wars. Among the dead at the Fort McPherson National Cemetery is Spotted Horse. Also a monument to the 1854 Grattan Massacre. | |||
O'Fallon's Bluff | Sutherland | On the south bank of the South Platte River, location of a stage station and military post. | |||
Beauvais Trading Post (Starr Ranch) | Brule | An 1859 trading post was established by Geminien P. Beauvais, and the famous pre-1859 Upper Crossing or Old California Crossing. | |||
California Crossing | Brule | A South Platte River crossing. | |||
Windlass Hill and Ash Hollow State Historical Park | Big Springs- Lewellen-area | ||||
Rachel Pattison Grave at Ash Hollow Cemetery | Lewellen | ||||
John Hollman Grave | Oshkosh | ||||
Courthouse and Jail Rocks | Bridgeport | Courthouse Rock is a sandstone outcropping south of the Oregon Trail. A smaller feature to the east is called the Jail Rock. | |||
Chimney Rock National Historic Site | Bayard | A clay and sandstone column resembling a tall factory chimney that is over 300 feet (91 m) today. | |||
Rebecca Winter's Grave site | Scottsbluff | Rebecca Winters of the Mormon pioneers died en route to Salt Lake City. | |||
Scotts Bluff | Gering | A bluff over the North Platte River, now within Scotts Bluff National Monument. | |||
Mitchell Pass | Gering | A gap in the Wildcat Hills used by travelers on the Emigrant Trail after 1851 after improvement by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, now within Scotts Bluff National Monument. | |||
Pierre D. Papin Grave | Gering | Pierre was a well known trapper who died at nearby Fort John in May 1853. | |||
Robidoux Trading Post | Gering | Small log trading post was established by Joseph E. Robidoux in late 1848. |
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