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History. Scotia was founded in the 1870s. A Scottish settler suggested the name Scotia, a literary name for Scotland. Scotia was designated the first county seat. Geography. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.35 square miles (0.91 km 2), all of it land.
2006. The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local conditions, capture an ecological "snapshot" in time of a range of well-preserved fossilized organisms. Ash from a Yellowstone hotspot eruption 10-12 million years ago created these ...
More than 1,100 properties and districts in Nebraska are on the National Register of Historic Places. Of these, 20 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in 90 of the state's 93 counties . This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 26, 2024. [1]
History Nebraska. History Nebraska, formerly the Nebraska State Historical Society is a Nebraska state agency, founded in 1878 to "encourage historical research and inquiry, spread historical information ... and to embrace alike aboriginal and modern history." It was designated a state institution in 1883, and upgraded to a state agency in 1994.
The Fortress of Louisbourg ( French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a tourist attraction as a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle ...
Natural history. Includes fossils and Native American artifacts. American Historical Society of Germans From Russia Cultural Heritage Research Center. Lincoln. Lancaster. Eastern. Open air. website, includes chapel, summer kitchen, barn, general store and blacksmith shop. Angel De Cora Museum and Research Center.
The history of the U.S. state of Nebraska dates back to its formation as a territory by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, passed by the United States Congress on May 30, 1854. The Nebraska Territory was settled extensively under the Homestead Act of 1862 during the 1860s, and in 1867 was admitted to the Union as the 37th U.S. state.
Designed for anti-submarine duty, it held the world's marine speed record for several years. Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site is a 10-hectare (25-acre) property in Baddeck, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, overlooking the Bras d'Or Lakes. [1] The site is a unit of Parks Canada, the national park system, and includes the Alexander ...