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Gene Leahy Mall
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Gene Leahy Mall, also known locally as Central Park or The Mall, is a 9. 6-acre park located at 1302 Farnam on the Mall in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, U. S. A. and bordered by South 10th Street. The Mall is encircled by a pathway that wraps around a large lagoon. There are also waterfalls, two slides, a horseshoe pit, and an amphitheater where outdoor concerts are held in the summer. The mall is decorated with thousands of lights during the holiday season. Connected on its edge with the Heartland of America Park, it is also borders the W. Dale Clark Library, the former Burlington Headquarters Building, the Old Market. In 2005 a major redevelopment process began focused on redesigning The Mall and several areas surrounding the Old Market
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View of holiday lights looking west along the lagoon at the Gene Leahy Mall.
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Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area
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The Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area is a metropolitan area comprising the cities of Omaha, Nebraska, and Council Bluffs, Iowa, and surrounding areas. The area has a population of 924,129, the metropolitan area, as defined by the Office of Management and Budget, consists of eight counties – five in Nebraska and three in Iowa. The area is referred to as the Metro Area, the Metro. Three of the counties have large areas, the other five counties consist primarily of rural communities. Standard definitions for United States metropolitan areas were created in 1949, at that time, the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area comprised three counties, Douglas and Sarpy in Nebraska, and Pottawattamie in Iowa. No additional counties were added to the area until 1983. Cass County, Nebraska was added in 1993, Saunders County in Nebraska and Harrison, the 2003 revision to metropolitan area definitions was accompanied by the creation of micropolitan areas and Combined Statistical Areas. Fremont, in Dodge County, Nebraska, was designated a micropolitan area, the Omaha–Council Bluffs–Fremont combined statistical area has a population of 858,720. towncommons. com – wiki website for the Omaha–Council Bluffs metro area
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View from space of Omaha and Council Bluffs
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Omaha metro
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The
Downtown Omaha skyline from North Downtown.
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Omaha, Nebraska
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Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha. According to the 2010 census, Omahas population was 408,958, according to the 2014 Population Estimates, Omahas population was 446,599. Including its suburbs, Omaha formed the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2013, the Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, Nebraska-IA Combined Statistical Area is 931,667, according to the U. S. Census Bureaus 2013 estimate. There are nearly 1.3 million residents within the Greater Omaha area, comprising a 50-mile radius of Downtown Omaha, Omahas pioneer period began in 1854, when the city was founded by speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa. The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, Omaha introduced this new West to the world in 1898, when it played host to the Worlds Fair, dubbed the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During the 19th century, Omahas central location in the United States spurred the city to become an important national transportation hub, throughout the rest of the 19th century, the transportation and jobbing sectors were important in the city, along with its railroads and breweries. In the 20th century, the Omaha Stockyards, once the worlds largest, Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters, Green Plains Renewable Energy, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, Werner Enterprises, and West Corporation. And Leo A Daly, the Gallup Organization, of Gallup Poll fame, Enron began in Omaha as Northern Natural Gas in 1930, before taking over a smaller Houston company in 1985 to form InterNorth, which Kenneth Lay moved permanently to Houston, in 1987. The modern economy of Omaha is diverse and built on skilled knowledge jobs, in 2009, Forbes identified Omaha as the nations number one Best Bang-For-The Buck City and ranked it number one on Americas Fastest-Recovering Cities list. Also, Omaha hosted the U. S. Olympic swim trials in 2008,2012 and 2016, the word Omaha means Dwellers on the bluff. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by the riverbanks where the city of Omaha would be built, there was fierce competition among fur traders until John Jacob Astor created the monopoly of the American Fur Company. The Mormons built a town called Cutlers Park in the area in 1846, while it was temporary, the settlement provided the basis for further development in the future. Through 26 separate treaties with the United States federal government, Native American tribes in Nebraska gradually ceded the lands comprising the state. The treaty and cession involving the Omaha area occurred in 1854 when the Omaha Tribe ceded most of east-central Nebraska, Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha and signatory to the 1854 treaty, played an essential role in those proceedings. Before it was legal to claim land in Indian Country, William D. Brown was operating the Lone Tree Ferry to bring settlers from Council Bluffs, Brown is generally credited as having the first vision for a city where Omaha now sits. The passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 was presaged by the out of claims around the area to become Omaha by residents from neighboring Council Bluffs. On July 4,1854, the city was established at a picnic on Capital Hill
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View of
Downtown Omaha from
Heartland of America Park
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Flag
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Seal
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Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the
Omaha Tribe when it ceded land to the U.S. government which became the city of Omaha
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Missouri River
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The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. Rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana, the Missouri flows east and south for 2,341 miles before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. The river takes drainage from a populated, semi-arid watershed of more than half a million square miles. When combined with the lower Mississippi River, it forms the fourth longest river system. For over 12,000 years, people have depended on the Missouri River and its tributaries as a source of sustenance and transportation. More than ten major groups of Native Americans populated the watershed, most leading a nomadic lifestyle, the Missouri River was one of the main routes for the westward expansion of the United States during the 19th century. The growth of the fur trade in the early 1800s laid much of the groundwork as trappers explored the region, pioneers headed west en masse beginning in the 1830s, first by covered wagon, then by the growing numbers of steamboats entering service on the river. Former Native American lands in the watershed were taken over by settlers, leading to some of the most longstanding, during the 20th century, the Missouri River basin was extensively developed for irrigation, flood control and the generation of hydroelectric power. Fifteen dams impound the main stem of the river, with more on tributaries. Meanders have been cut and the river channelized to improve navigation, from the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming, three streams rise to form the headwaters of the Missouri River. The longest begins near Browers Spring,9,100 feet above sea level, on the southeastern slopes of Mount Jefferson in the Centennial Mountains. Flowing west then north, it runs first in Hell Roaring Creek, then west into the Red Rock, swings northeast to become the Beaverhead and these two streams then flow north and northwest into Montana. The Missouri River officially starts at the confluence of the Jefferson and Madison in Missouri Headwaters State Park near Three Forks, Montana, the Missouri then passes through Canyon Ferry Lake, a reservoir west of the Big Belt Mountains. Issuing from the mountains near Cascade, the flows northeast to the city of Great Falls, where it drops over the Great Falls of the Missouri. Farther on, the passes through the Fort Peck Dam, and immediately downstream. At the confluence, the Yellowstone is actually the larger river, the Missouri then meanders east past Williston and into Lake Sakakawea, the reservoir formed by Garrison Dam. Below the dam the Missouri receives the Knife River from the west and flows south to Bismarck, the capital of North Dakota and it slows into the Lake Oahe reservoir just before the Cannonball River confluence. While it continues south, eventually reaching Oahe Dam in South Dakota, the Missouri makes a bend to the southeast as it winds through the Great Plains, receiving the Niobrara River and many smaller tributaries from the southwest
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A relatively undeveloped reach of the river near
Rocheport, Missouri
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Map of the Missouri River and its tributaries in North America
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Holter Lake, a reservoir on the upper Missouri River
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The Missouri in North Dakota, which was the furthest upstream that French explorers traveled on the river
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CenturyLink Center Omaha
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The CenturyLink Center Omaha is an arena and convention center in the North Downtown neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska operated by the Metropolitan Entertainment & Convention Authority. The 1,100, 000-square-foot facility has an 18, 975-seat arena, the complex opened in 2003 as Qwest Center Omaha. It adopted its current name on July 15,2011, as part of a $22 billion buyout of Qwest by CenturyLink, all signage, inside and outside, changed to conform to the new arena name and exterior accent lighting changed from blue to green. Work completed on December 20,2011, the contract expires in 2018 and MECA is preparing to negotiate a new contract. The arenas primary tenant is the Creighton University mens basketball team, in 2000, Omaha voters approved a $216 million bond issue to build a new convention center and arena, the remainder of the $291 million project was provided by private organizations and individuals. The facility design was led by architectural firm DLR Group, naming rights to the arena were purchased by Qwest. Qwest Center Omaha opened in September 2003 with a seating capacity of 17,000 for concerts,15,500 for basketball. In 2006, a $5. 7-million expansion of the increased capacity by approximately 1,500 seats. The Qwest Center displaced the 1954 Omaha Civic Auditorium as the premier indoor arena. The venerable Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum closed in 2002 and was demolished in 2005 and it was also home to the WWE Judgment Day 2008 pay-per-view, as well as other events from WWE. The center hosted the nationally televised USA Swimming Summer Olympics trials in 2008,2012 and 2016, the center does not have permanent swimming facilities and a team of 200 workers with oversight by Myrtha Pools constructed them in two weeks. The Omaha Fire Department pumped in two gallons of water from hydrants around the center. The 2008 event averaged more than 12,000 spectators each night, a storm damaged a portion of the roof known as The Hat on June 27,2008. The schedule for the trials went on as planned, in 2001, construction began on the new convention center and arena, known as the Omaha Arena and Convention Center. Architectural firm DLR Group spearheaded the design, while The Thornton-Tomasetti Group served as structural engineer, m–E Engineers, Inc. was the services engineer and a local company, Kiewit Corporation, led general construction. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on March 1,2001, the venue was completed in August 2003, with an official opening on September 24,2003. In 2006, the MCEA funded a project to expanded the arena, the project also included adding restroom facilities and concession stands, as well as updating aesthetics, mechanical systems, and emergency exits. The cost of the project was $6 million, construction began in May and was completed September 8,2006
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CenturyLink Center Omaha
CenturyLink Center Omaha
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The CenturyLink Center in 2012
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White Out vs Wichita St.
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Union Pacific Railroad
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The Union Pacific Railroad is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Union Pacific Railroad network is the largest in the United States and it is also one of the worlds largest transportation companies. Union Pacific Railroad is the operating company of Union Pacific Corporation. Union Pacific Corporations main competitor is the BNSF Railway, the second largest freight railroad. Together, the two railroads have a duopoly on all freight rail lines in the U. S. The original company was incorporated on July 1,1862, under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union. It was constructed westward from Council Bluffs, Iowa to meet the Central Pacific Railroad line, the line was constructed primarily by Irish labor who had learned their craft during the recent Civil War. The two lines were joined together at Promontory Summit, Utah,53 miles west of Ogden on May 10,1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. Under the guidance of its dominant stockholder Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, the namesake of the city of Durant, Iowa, the first rails were laid in Omaha. It built or purchased local lines that gave it access to Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon and it also owned narrow gauge trackage into the heart of the Colorado Rockies and a standard gauge line south from Denver across New Mexico into Texas. UP was entangled in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, exposed in 1872 and its independent construction company the Crédit Mobilier had bribed congressmen. The UP itself was not guilty but it did get bad publicity, the financial crisis of 1873 led to financial troubles but not bankruptcy. The company was reorganized as the Union Pacific Railway on January 24,1880, the new company declared bankruptcy during the Panic of 1893. When it emerged in 1897 it reverted to the original name, the corporate headquarters of the Union Pacific Corporation were located in New York City from its initial founding in the 1860s until Drew Lewis became CEO in the mid-1980s. He relocated it to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, later the headquarters was shifted to Dallas, Texas, before relocating to Omaha to join the operating headquarters. From the ICC annual reports, except 1979 is from Moodys, on December 31,1925 UP-OSL-OWRN-LA&SL-StJ&GI operated 9,834 route-miles and 15,265 track-miles. At the end of 1980, Union Pacific operated 9,266 route-miles and 15,647 miles of track, Moodys shows 220,697 million revenue ton-miles in 1993 on the expanded system
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The Last Spike, by
Thomas Hill, (1881)
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Union Pacific Railroad
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Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad gather on the 100th
meridian, which later became
Cozad, Nebraska, approximately 250 miles (400 km) west of
Omaha,
Nebraska Territory, in October 1866. The train in the background awaits the party of Eastern capitalists, newspapermen, and other prominent figures invited by the railroad executives.
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Union Pacific Center in
Omaha, Nebraska
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Jobbers Canyon Historic District
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Jobbers Canyon Historic District was a large industrial and warehouse area comprising 24 buildings located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, USA. It was roughly bound by Farnam Street on the north, South Eighth Street on the east, Jackson Street on the south, in 1989, all 24 buildings in Jobbers Canyon were demolished, representing the largest National Register historic district lost to date. The development of Jobbers Canyon mirrored Omahas emergence as a hub in the United States transportation system of the late 19th century. Railroad entrepreneurs, land speculators, and merchants built Jobbers Canyon from the 1870s onward, after George Francis Train landed the Union Pacific and Credit Foncier of America in Omaha, the city quickly turned into a transportation hub. At its peak, Jobbers Canyon had more than 1,700,000 square feet of office, warehouse, industrial, speaking in 1987 about Jobbers Canyon, J. All of Omahas largest and most notable wholesale and mercantile businesses built massive warehouse structures in the area by the early 20th century. Six and seven story red brick buildings filled with jobbing houses towered over red brick streets, the area included the Kingman Implement Company building, also called the U. S. Tire building, located at 923 Farnam Street and it was built in 1900 as a six-story brick Renaissance Revival style structure. Kingman was a distributor of farm implements and vehicles. The Fairbanks, Morse and Company building at 923 Farnam Street was six stories tall and it was designed in 1907 by Omaha architects Fisher and Lawrie. In 1907 Fairbanks, Morse and Company was the largest manufacturer of gasoline, kerosene, in 1906, architect Charles Cleves designed a six story building for the U. S. Supply Company, which distributed of wholesale steam, water and plumbing supplies, the Dempster Building was a five story Renaissance Revival style warehouse designed by Omaha architect John Latenser, Sr. in 1902. The Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company started as a retail pump and windmill shop in 1880 and eventually grew to become a major manufacturer of windmills. Architects Fisher & Lawrie designed another six story red brick structure in 1900 for the Lee-Glass-Andreesen Hardware Company. They were wholesalers of hardware, cutlery and tinware, the eight story Creighton Block was built for John A. Creighton to house the Byrne and Hammer Dry Goods Company, the most ornate building in Jobbers Canyon, this Renaissance Revival style structure was designed by architect Charles Cleves. Today the Greenhouse Apartments at 900 Farnam Street are the building left from the original Jobbers Canyon. The Nash Block at 902 Farnam Street was designed by Thomas R. Kimball, agriculture-related industries have always been important to Omahas workforce
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Jobbers Canyon Historic District
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The M.E. Smith Building, designed by Fredrick S. Stott, built in 1920 and formerly located at 201 South 10th Street. It was demolished in 1989.
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Western United States
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The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States. Because European settlement in the U. S. expanded westward after its founding, prior to about 1800, the crest of the Appalachian Mountains was seen as the western frontier. Since then, the frontier moved westward and eventually lands west of the Mississippi River came to be referred to as the West. The West contains several major biomes, the Western U. S. is the largest region of the country, covering more than half the land area of the United States. Given this expansive and diverse geography it is no wonder the region is difficult to specifically define, a majority of the historian respondents placed the eastern boundary of the West east of the Census definition out on the eastern edge of the Great Plains or on the Mississippi River. The survey respondents as a whole showed just how little agreement there was on the boundaries of the West, within a region as large and diverse as the Western United States, smaller areas with more closely shared demographics and geography have developed as subregions. Meanwhile, the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington can be considered part of the Northwest or Pacific Northwest, West Texas in the Chihuahuan Desert may be considered as part of the Western U. S. Fort Worth has long laid claim to be Where the West Begins, the West is still one of the most sparsely settled areas in the United States with 49.5 inhabitants per square mile. Only Texas with 78.0 inhabitants/sq mi, Washington with 86.0 inhabitants/sq mi. and California with 213.4 inhabitants/sq mi. exceed the national average of 77.98 inhabitants/sq mi. The entire Western region has also strongly influenced by European, Hispanic or Latino, Asian and Native Americans. African and European Americans, however, continue to wield a stronger political influence because of the rates of citizenship and voting among Asians. The West also contains much of the Native American population in the U. S. particularly in the reservations in the Mountain. The Western United States has a sex ratio than any other region in the United States. Because the tide of development had not yet reached most of the West when conservation became an issue, agencies of the federal government own. National parks are reserved for activities such as fishing, camping, hiking, and boating, but other government lands also allow commercial activities like ranching, logging. The largest city in the region is Los Angeles, located on the West Coast, Other West Coast cities include San Diego, San Bernardino, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, Bakersfield, Sacramento, Seattle, Tacoma, and Portland. Prominent cities in the Mountain States include Denver, Colorado Springs, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, El Paso, and Cheyenne. Along the Pacific Ocean coast lie the Coast Ranges, which and they collect a large part of the airborne moisture moving in from the ocean
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While the West is defined by many cultures, the American
cowboy is occasionally seen as iconic of the region, here portrayed by
C.M. Russell
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Regional definitions vary from source to source. This map reflects the Western United States as defined by the
Census Bureau, which includes 13 states:
Alaska,
Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
Hawaii,
Idaho,
Montana,
Nevada,
New Mexico,
Oregon,
Utah,
Washington, and
Wyoming. In turn, this region is sub-divided into Mountain and Pacific areas.
Western United States
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The West, as the most recent part of the United States, is often known for broad
highways and
freeways and open space. Here is a highway in Northern Arizona.
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The geography of the Western United States is split into three
major physiographic divisions:
the Rocky Mountain System (areas 16-19 on map), the
Intermontane Plateaus (20-22), and the
Pacific Mountain System (23-25).
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National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed properties, protection of the property is not guaranteed. During the nomination process, the property is evaluated in terms of the four criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the application of those criteria has been the subject of criticism by academics of history and preservation, as well as the public and politicians. Occasionally, historic sites outside the proper, but associated with the United States are also listed. Properties can be nominated in a variety of forms, including individual properties, historic districts, the Register categorizes general listings into one of five types of properties, district, site, structure, building, or object. National Register Historic Districts are defined geographical areas consisting of contributing and non-contributing properties, some properties are added automatically to the National Register when they become administered by the National Park Service. These include National Historic Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, National Military Parks/Battlefields, National Memorials, on October 15,1966, the Historic Preservation Act created the National Register of Historic Places and the corresponding State Historic Preservation Offices. Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Registers creation, approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy. To administer the newly created National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior, hartzog, Jr. established an administrative division named the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Hartzog charged OAHP with creating the National Register program mandated by the 1966 law, ernest Connally was the Offices first director. Within OAHP new divisions were created to deal with the National Register, the first official Keeper of the Register was William J. Murtagh, an architectural historian. During the Registers earliest years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, organization was lax and SHPOs were small, understaffed, and underfunded. A few years later in 1979, the NPS history programs affiliated with both the U. S. National Parks system and the National Register were categorized formally into two Assistant Directorates. Established were the Assistant Directorate for Archeology and Historic Preservation and the Assistant Directorate for Park Historic Preservation, from 1978 until 1981, the main agency for the National Register was the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of the United States Department of the Interior. In February 1983, the two assistant directorates were merged to promote efficiency and recognize the interdependency of their programs, jerry L. Rogers was selected to direct this newly merged associate directorate
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Logo used for the NRHP.
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Old Slater Mill, a historic district in
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was the first property listed in the National Register on November 13, 1966.
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The
Loren Andrus Octagon House in
Washington, Michigan has been on the NRHP since September 3, 1971.
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Built in 1800 by
Samuel McIntire in
Salem, the
Stephen Phillips House is operated as a
historic house museum by
Historic New England and open for public tours.
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Historic district
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A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries, historic districts receive legal protection from development, Historic districts may or may not also be the center of the city. They may be coterminous with the district, administrative district, or arts district. In Canada, such districts are called heritage conservation districts or heritage conservation areas and are governed by provincial legislation, the United States has specific legislation identifying and giving protection to designated historic districts. The term Historic District is not used in the United Kingdom, the equivalent urban areas are known as Conservation Areas. Iranian Heritage and Tourism organization has nominated and selected cities for their valuable historical monuments and districts. Baft-e Tarikhi is the name such areas are labelled with, naein, Isfahan and Yazd are examples of Iranian cities with historic districts. Old City Old Town Downtown Central Business District Historic overlay district
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Historic district street sign in
Ypsilanti, Michigan
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Heartland of America Park
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Heartland of America Park is a public park located at 800 Douglas Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, USA. The 31-acre park is situated between Interstate 80 and the Missouri River, and is adjacent to Gene Leahy Mall and the Old Market, where the park sits has been the site of exploration, expansion and now, recreation. Lewis and Clark reportedly discovered conspicuous earthen mounds when they explored the location in 1804, historians speculate the mounds may have been natural or the remains of an Otoe village. Opened in 1990, the park was built on recovered after the demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District. The area, filled with warehouses dating to the 1870s, was integral to the growth, along with the lake the park features a paved walking trail encircling area. There are three fountains, including a large, modern, $1.5 million computerized fountain that projects water 300 feet into the air and features a nighttime light show. The lake has a boat named the General Marion, with rides available in the summertime. There is also a monument to the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition, and the late 1800s Waterworks Fountain, once located at the Webster Station, the park is the site of the annual Taste of Omaha event. If you stay on the path around the lake, and cut through underneath the structural awning on the northwest side of the lake, parks in Omaha, Nebraska Modern photo of the Waterworks Fountain jpg of water fountain in the park
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Heartland of America Park, looking south
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The fountain with the city's skyline behind
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Lone Tree Ferry
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Brown was the first pioneer to see the potential for a city on the site, and the landing became a popular gathering site for the first settlers of the Nebraska Territory. Named after a tree on the Nebraska bank of the river. William Brown was headed west from Mount Pleasant, Iowa in the California Gold Rush of 1849 when he decided to stay in Council Bluffs and it was from this position that Brown first conceived of founding Omaha. The point which he launched from on the Nebraska side was purportedly in the Millers Landing area. Brown convinced 12 businessmen, including Dr. Enos Lowe, Jesse Lowe, Jesse Williams, and Joseph H. D. Street, all of Kanesville, Iowa, on July 23,1853 they formed the Council Bluffs and Nebraska Ferry Company. In addition to owning ferry boats the company owned property on both sides of the Missouri River. In September 1853 the company bought a steamboat from Alton, Illinois called the General Marion, in its early years the company was the instrumental force in getting settlers into the Nebraska Territory. Early in 1854 the company built the St. Nicholas Hotel, during the next summer the organizers of the ferry company surveyed and laid out the town site for Omaha City west of the Missouri River. The first commercial building in Omaha belonged to the company, which donated its services as the legislative chambers for the first territorial legislature. Prior to the completion of the Omaha railroad bridge in April 1872 the Union Pacific railroad transfer boats carried the trains across to the Nebraska side, in the winter an ice bridge was constructed for the train to use. In 1862 Captain W. W. Marsh bought a large interest in the company, the company ran a twenty-year charter which featured a variety of boats until 1872, when the Union Pacific railroad opened the first bridge across the Missouri River. That bridge made the service obsolete at the end of the contract term after it was constructed in 1888. People associated with the company included pioneers such as Dr. Enos Lowe, Jesse Lowe, Jesse Williams. The president of the company was Dr. Enos Lowe, and the other members were Sam S. Bayliss, Joseph H. D. Street, Henn and Williams, Samuel Curtis, Tanner and Downs. There has been speculation about the location of the Lone Tree Ferry landing, one source places the Nebraska side at the east end of present-day Davenport Street in Omaha and the east bank on West Broadway in Council Bluffs, Iowa. However, in 2004 a map expert using GPS and old maps identified a location by the Gallup University as the location, transportation in Omaha History of Omaha Founding figures of Omaha, Nebraska
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The former site of the Lone Tree Ferry; taken from Miller's Landing, the Gallup University campus along the
Missouri River.
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GPS
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The Global Positioning System is a space-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force. The GPS system operates independently of any telephonic or internet reception, the GPS system provides critical positioning capabilities to military, civil, and commercial users around the world. The United States government created the system, maintains it, however, the US government can selectively deny access to the system, as happened to the Indian military in 1999 during the Kargil War. The U. S. Department of Defense developed the system and it became fully operational in 1995. Roger L. Easton of the Naval Research Laboratory, Ivan A, getting of The Aerospace Corporation, and Bradford Parkinson of the Applied Physics Laboratory are credited with inventing it. Announcements from Vice President Al Gore and the White House in 1998 initiated these changes, in 2000, the U. S. Congress authorized the modernization effort, GPS III. In addition to GPS, other systems are in use or under development, mainly because of a denial of access. The Russian Global Navigation Satellite System was developed contemporaneously with GPS, GLONASS can be added to GPS devices, making more satellites available and enabling positions to be fixed more quickly and accurately, to within two meters. There are also the European Union Galileo positioning system and Chinas BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, special and general relativity predict that the clocks on the GPS satellites would be seen by the Earths observers to run 38 microseconds faster per day than the clocks on the Earth. The GPS calculated positions would quickly drift into error, accumulating to 10 kilometers per day, the relativistic time effect of the GPS clocks running faster than the clocks on earth was corrected for in the design of GPS. The Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, two American physicists, William Guier and George Weiffenbach, at Johns Hopkinss Applied Physics Laboratory, decided to monitor Sputniks radio transmissions. Within hours they realized that, because of the Doppler effect, the Director of the APL gave them access to their UNIVAC to do the heavy calculations required. The next spring, Frank McClure, the deputy director of the APL, asked Guier and Weiffenbach to investigate the inverse problem — pinpointing the users location and this led them and APL to develop the TRANSIT system. In 1959, ARPA also played a role in TRANSIT, the first satellite navigation system, TRANSIT, used by the United States Navy, was first successfully tested in 1960. It used a constellation of five satellites and could provide a navigational fix approximately once per hour, in 1967, the U. S. Navy developed the Timation satellite, which proved the feasibility of placing accurate clocks in space, a technology required by GPS. In the 1970s, the ground-based OMEGA navigation system, based on comparison of signal transmission from pairs of stations. Limitations of these systems drove the need for a more universal navigation solution with greater accuracy, during the Cold War arms race, the nuclear threat to the existence of the United States was the one need that did justify this cost in the view of the United States Congress. This deterrent effect is why GPS was funded and it is also the reason for the ultra secrecy at that time
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Artist's conception of GPS Block II-F satellite in Earth orbit.
GPS
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Geodesy
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Civilian GPS receivers ("
GPS navigation device ") in a marine application.
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Automotive navigation system in a taxicab.
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Omaha Central High School
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Omaha Central High School, originally known as Omaha High School, is a fully accredited public high school located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. It is one of public high schools located within Omaha. As of the 2013–14 academic year, Omaha Central had an enrollment of 2,601 students, the current building, located in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska, was designed by John Latenser, Sr. and built between 1900 and 1912. It is the oldest active high school building in the city, on November 10,1859, Omaha Central High School began as Omaha High School in the Nebraska Territory capitol building. In 1869, after the government was removed from Omaha. In 1872, it was replaced by a building that hosted kindergarten through twelfth grades. In 1900, a new building was begun that encircled the second school, kindergarten through eighth grade were moved to the neighboring Central Elementary School. A gym was added to Central in 1930, and this building is still in use today, the Eagles compete in Class A, the largest classification in Nebraska according to the Nebraska School Activities Association. Throughout its history, Omaha Central has won state championships in various sports. Many graduates have gone on to participate in collegiate athletics, the football and soccer teams compete at Seeman Stadium located on campus. The boys and girls basketball games and volleyball matches are played at the Central High gymnasium, the baseball and softball teams compete at Boyd Stadium, a renovated park three miles northeast of the campus. In 2007, the Eagles became the high school in Nebraska to have won championships in three main sports in the same calendar year. As a result, Central was ranked by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 10 high-school athletic programs in the country, the high schools newspaper is known as The Register. In 1986 Quill and Scroll, officially declared The Register the oldest continuously published newspaper west of the Mississippi, after running a controversial story in 2001, the staff and the paper was rebuked by the administration. The story reported on a football player continuing to play, despite 2 assault charges, the charges, as stated in the schools handbook, should have led to a dismissal from the team. After running the story, the paper was threatened with being shut down, the school advisor received support from media outlets on the local and national level. This support stopped the paper from being shut down, after administration had again threatened the paper with closure, the students won reprieve through the support of professional journalists across the country. Central has had youth-led media for some years, starting in 1923, the school had a high school radio station for five years
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Founding figures of Omaha, Nebraska
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The following people were founding figures of Omaha, Nebraska. Their period of influence ranges from 1853 through 1900, many in this group were members of the Old Settlers Association and/or the Omaha Claim Club. Many were buried at the Prospect Hill Cemetery in North Omaha, history of Omaha List of mayors of Omaha List of people from Omaha, Nebraska Kountze family Creighton family
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Omaha's perpetual mayor, Cowboy
Jim Dahlman.
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Logan Fontenelle, chief of the
Omaha Tribe that signed the treaty making the city of Omaha's land available.
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Edward Rosewater, founder and editor of the
Omaha Bee, a pioneer-era newspaper.
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Douglas County Courthouse (Omaha)
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The present Douglas County Courthouse is located at 1701 Farnam Street in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Built in 1912, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, notable events at the courthouse include two lynchings and the citys first sit-in during the Civil Rights Movement. Five years after it was opened, the building was almost destroyed by mob violence in the Omaha Race Riot of 1919. Three years after the city was founded in 1854, on March 18,1857 the City of Omaha built a jail and it bounded by 15th, 16th, Douglas and Farnam streets. The original courthouse in Douglas County, with a room and mayor’s court room, several offices. The original building was found to be too small as early as 1869, the current site, a block between 17th, 18th, Farnam and Harney Streets, became available in 1878, and in 1879, a jail was built on the southwest corner of this lot. A completely new courthouse was opened on May 28,1885, a 112 x 130-foot -wide building, outer walls were covered with sandstone and the inner walls were brick. The dome was iron and sheet metal that was sanded and painted to resemble stone, yule Marble tiled hallways and elaborate wrought iron staircases went throughout the building. The lynching of Joe Coe occurred outside the Courthouse in 1891, angered because of believing that a young girl had died after being attacked by him, hundreds of men had overwhelmed the small police force. They dragged Coe from his cell and hung him from streetcar cables at the corner of 17th, when the new courthouse was built, the old building was torn down and recycled. Materials from the old building were used in the construction of the Lancaster Apartments at 25th Avenue. The dark stone on the two stories and the white pillars at each of the main entrances were from the courthouse. John Latenser, an important architect, was hired to design a replacement building in 1908. Built south of the old courthouse, the new building is six stories tall along Harney Street, while the exterior walls are covered with unembellished Bedford stone, the interior halls have mosaic floors and marble wainscotings. Hardwood covers the interior of most offices, and vaults preserve county records, there were county offices on the main floor, second and third floors, and courtrooms on the fourth floor. The Douglas County Jail was on the fifth floor, young white men broke windows and climbed the outside of the building. After a few hours, thousands gathered and they set the courthouse on fire to force the police to hand over the suspect. After lynching Brown and the citys mayor Edwards, who was rescued at the last minute and they were stopped by federal troops from Fort Omaha, who had been called in to restore order in the city
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Douglas County Courthouse
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Close up photo of courthouse; present day.
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Lynching
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Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterise informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a group. It is a form of informal group social control such as charivari, skimmington, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering. Lynchings have been frequent in times of social and economic tension. However, it has resulted from long-held prejudices and practices of discrimination that have conditioned societies to accept this type of violence as normal practices of popular justice. Indeed, instances of it can be found in societies long antedating European settlement of North America, the legal and cultural antecedents of American lynching were carried across the Atlantic by migrants from the British Isles to colonial North America. Collective violence was an aspect of the early modern Anglo-American legal landscape. In the United States, during the decades before the Civil War, assertive free-Blacks, Latinos in the South West, Violence rose even more at the end of the 19th century, after southern white Democrats regained their political power in the South in the 1870s. Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920, the origins of the word lynch are obscure, but it likely originated during the American revolution. The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial, two Americans during this era are generally credited for the phrase, Charles Lynch and William Lynch, who both lived in Virginia in the 1780s. Charles Lynch has the claim, as he was known to have used the term in 1782. There is no evidence that death was imposed as a punishment by either of the two men, in 1782, Charles Lynch wrote that his assistant had administered Lynchs law to Tories for Dealing with negroes, &c. In the United States, the origin of the terms lynching, Charles Lynch was a Virginia planter and American Revolutionary who headed a county court in Virginia which incarcerated Loyalist supporters of the British for up to one year during the war. While he lacked proper jurisdiction, he claimed this right by arguing wartime necessity, subsequently, he prevailed upon his friends in the Congress of the Confederation to pass a law which specifically exonerated him and his associates from wrongdoing. He was concerned that he might face legal action from one or more of those so incarcerated, Lynch was not accused of racist bias, and indeed acquitted blacks accused of murder on three separate occasions, as dictated by the facts brought before him. He was accused, however, of ethnic prejudice in his abuse of Welsh miners, William Lynch from Virginia claimed that the phrase was first used for a 1780 compact signed by him and his neighbors in Pittsylvania County. While Edgar Allan Poe claimed that he found this document, this was likely a hoax, however, linguistic evidence is strongly against it, and the story was likely invented in the 19th century. Racist extremism with an eye to viciousness and public spectacle was frequently evident, in the South, members of the abolitionist movement or other people opposing slavery were usually targets of lynch mob violence before the Civil War
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A
black American man killed by hanging in a lynching in 1925.
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The lynching of
Laura Nelson in
Okemah, Oklahoma on May 25, 1911; she was lynched together with her son.
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One of the largest mass lynchings in American history involved the lynching of eleven
Italian immigrants in
New Orleans in 1891.
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Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, lynched in
Marion, Indiana on August 7, 1930
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Willy Brown
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The Omaha race riot occurred in Omaha, Nebraska, September 28–29,1919. It followed more than 20 race riots occurred in major industrial cities of the United States during the Red Summer of 1919. Three weeks before the riot, federal investigators had noted that a clash was imminent owing to ill-feeling between white and black workers in the stockyards. The number of blacks in Omaha doubled during the decade 1910–1920, as they were recruited to work in the meatpacking industry, in 1910, Omaha had the third largest black population among the new western cities that had become destinations following Reconstruction. By 1920, the population more than doubled to over 10,000. It was ahead of San Francisco, Oakland, Topeka, the major meatpacking plants hired blacks as strikebreakers in 1917. South Omahas working-class whites, mostly Catholic immigrants of southern and eastern Europe or descendants of those immigrants, by this time, the ethnic Irish—the largest and earliest group of immigrants—had established their power base in the city. Several years earlier, following the death of an Irish policeman, ethnic Irish had led a mob in an attack on Greektown, with little support from the Omaha City Council or the citys labor unions, Smith wearily worked through his reform agenda. Following several strikes throughout the year, two detectives with Omaha Police Departments morals squad shot and killed an African American bellhop on September 11. Sensationalized local media reports of the rape of 19-year-old Agnes Loebeck on September 25,1919 triggered the violence associate with Will Browns lynching. The following day, police arrested 41-year-old Will Brown as a suspect, Loebeck identified Brown as her rapist, however during questioning Brown stated that Loebeck did not make positive identification which Loebeck later refuted. There was an attempt to lynch Brown on the day of his arrest. The Omaha Bee, which published a series of articles alleging many incidents of black outrages. A political machine opposed to the newly elected administration of Mayor Smith controlled the Omaha Bee. It highlighted alleged incidents of black criminality to embarrass the new administration, the march was intercepted by John T. Dunn, chief of the Omaha Detective Bureau, and his subordinates. Dunn attempted to disperse the crowd, but they ignored his warning, thirty police officers were guarding the courthouse when the marchers arrived. By 4,00 p. m. the crowd had grown much larger, members of the crowd bantered with the officers until the police were convinced that the crowd posed no serious threat. A report to that effect was made to the police station
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Will Brown is lynched, and his body mutilated and burned by a white crowd.
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Photograph taken from a different angle showing the body of Will Brown after being burned by a white crowd.
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Political boss
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A boss, in politics, is a person who controls a unit of a political party, although he/she may not hold political office. Numerous officeholders in that unit are subordinate to the boss in party affairs. Each party in the ward or city may have its own boss, that is. Reformers sometimes allege that political bosses are likely guilty of corruption, bosses may base their power on control of a large number of votes. When the party wins, they typically control appointments in their unit and they do not necessarily hold public office themselves, most historical bosses did not, at least during the times of their greatest influence. The appearance of bosses has been common since the Roman Republic, in Spanish America, Brazil, Spain, and Portugal political bosses called caciques hold power in many places. One of the most powerful party leaders was James A. Farley who was the chief dispenser of Democratic Party patronage during Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal and he was not a boss because he worked under the direction of Roosevelt himself. Farley handled most mid-level and lower-level appointments in consultation with state, Farley parlayed his position as Democratic National Committee boss into a run for the Democratic nomination for President in 1940. Farley had been elected to public office once, to the New York State Assembly. In the South, charismatic populist politicians like Huey Long commanded large networks of supporters, similar practices existed in the northern cities, particularly New York City, where Boss Tweed wielded control over the powerful Democratic political machine. In Denver, Colorado during the 1890s there was Jefferson Randolph Soapy Smith who operated as the Republican party boss, charles Brayton exercised great influence over the politics of turn of the 20th century Rhode Island. He exemplified rural bossism within the Republican Party, chicago had numerous colorful bosses, such as Democrats Hinky Dink and Bathhouse John. The Republican counterparts included Big Bill Thompson, who became mayor in the 1920s, of course the iconic figure was longtime mayor and chairman of the Cook County Democratic Committee Richard J. Daley. Daley had a voice in state and national Democratic politics. With a few exceptions in the Southwest, such as Phoenix, most large cities of 100,000 or more in the early 20th century had machine organizations, some had a major impact on state politics, such as E. H. Crump in Memphis, Tennessee. A few bosses had reputations as reformers, such as Frank Hague of Jersey City, Boss Tweed was played by Philip Bosco in the 1986 TV movie Liberty, and by Jim Broadbent as a major supporting character in the 2002 film Gangs of New York. Tweed is portrayed as a defender of the rights of minorities and helper of those in need in Pete Hamills 2003 novel Forever
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1869 tobacco label featuring
Boss Tweed
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Tom Dennison (political boss)
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Tom Dennison, aka Pickhandle, Old Grey Wolf, was the early 20th century political boss and racketeer of Omaha, Nebraska. A politically savvy, culturally astute gambler, Dennison was in charge of the citys wide crime rings, including prostitution, gambling and bootlegging in the 1920s. Dennison is credited with electing Cowboy James Dahlman mayor of Omaha eight times, the son of Irish immigrants, Tom Dennison came to Nebraska from Iowa in 1860 at the age of two. When he was young, Dennison traveled throughout the West as a prospector, Dennison had owned and operated gambling houses such as the Opera House Gambling Saloon in Leadville, Colorado and the Board of Trade saloon in Butte, Montana. Tom Dennison was thirty-four when he arrived in Omaha with $75,000 in cash, upon surveying the city, he found Omaha to be a wide open town, meaning there was little legal control over gambling, liquor, prostitution and other criminal interests. Dennison soon became known as the city’s King Gambler and first entered the arena around 1900 as a way of protecting his interests. Dennison never actually held public office, instead buying influence through lavish campaign contributions, Dennison acted as a power broker between the business community and the local vice lords. His gambling operations were located in Omaha’s third ward. He actively worked with local groups to eliminate half of the saloons in Omaha — reputedly. Dennison operated a bank at 1409 Douglas Street, the site of the current Union Pacific Center, loaning money. For more than 25 years, his power was such that no crime occurred in the city without his blessing, the reported to him daily. Dennison once explained his law theory to the Omaha Bee, saying, for my part, I hate a damn hypocrite. Early in 1918 Dennison was the subject of a sensational trial, during the proceedings, Dennison himself admitted that one of his roadhouses operated for more than 10 years without a license. He explained he was making payments to a county commissioner for protection from the law. Dennison controlled Omaha politics throughout his reign and his approval to run for office was gained through payment of bribes and by supporting the rest of Dennison’s political slate. In 1906, Omaha Republicans supporting the Progressive Movement nominated a reformer named Erastus Benson for Mayor, Cowboy Jim Dahlman, a popular, first-time candidate. Dahlman seemed to be tolerant of Dennisons Sporting District, so Dennison supported him. In 1916 Nebraska passed a constitutional amendment allowing for prohibition
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Old Market (Omaha, Nebraska)
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The neighborhood has many restaurants, art galleries and upscale shopping. The area retains its brick paved streets from the turn of the century, horse-drawn carriages and it is not uncommon to see a variety of street performers, artists, and other vendors. There is a tour of historic buildings available from the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. There are also specifically noted historic buildings within the district. Built to sell wholesale and retail to the city of Omaha and beyond. The Old Market district was starting to be built when the Market House still stood and they included the P. E. Iler Block, which is a contributing property to the district. Built in 1901, the six story building was built as a warehouse. A1990 rehabilitation converted the building into retail and office space, the Windsor Hotel is a three-story brick building built in 1885. The building was converted into residential and commercial space in 1985. The Broatch Building was built in 1880 and expanded in 1887, the McClure-Smith Building is a two-story brick building that was built around 1878. Originally a steam bakery, a 1985 rehabilitation converted the building to office, root Building is a three-story brick building constructed in 1904 as offices. The building was doubled in size by the addition of a portion in 1909. In 1993 that building was converted to retail and residential spaces, built in 1894 this five-story building is located in Omahas Old Market Historic District. The Morse-Coe Shoe Company, now known as the Mayfield Apartments was built as a warehouse, a 2002 rehabilitation converted the structure to a mixed-use function of apartments, retail space and parking. The George H. Lee Building was built in 1903 as warehouse, conAgra Foods relocated their headquarters to neighbor the Old Market in 1991, after a contentious battle with local advocates after the City of Omaha demolished the Jobbers Canyon Historic District. On January 9,2016, at 2,51 pm local time, the fire and subsequent efforts to extinguish it caused a total loss of the 100-year-old building as firefighters worked through the night and following morning. Temperatures at the time were in the sub-zero range causing large-scale freezing of the water from the fire fighting efforts, the explosion is believed to have been caused by a gas line that was accidentally ruptured by contractors on behalf of Verizon installing fiber-optic cables. Although several people were injured during the explosion, there were no fatalities, eyewitnesses reported injuries sustained by multiple people within the immediate vicinity of the explosion, although these were not broadcast by local media outlets
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Old Market Historic District
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Many of the original warehouses in the Old Market have been converted into lofts, such as the buildings above.
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Jobbers Canyon
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Jobbers Canyon Historic District was a large industrial and warehouse area comprising 24 buildings located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, USA. It was roughly bound by Farnam Street on the north, South Eighth Street on the east, Jackson Street on the south, in 1989, all 24 buildings in Jobbers Canyon were demolished, representing the largest National Register historic district lost to date. The development of Jobbers Canyon mirrored Omahas emergence as a hub in the United States transportation system of the late 19th century. Railroad entrepreneurs, land speculators, and merchants built Jobbers Canyon from the 1870s onward, after George Francis Train landed the Union Pacific and Credit Foncier of America in Omaha, the city quickly turned into a transportation hub. At its peak, Jobbers Canyon had more than 1,700,000 square feet of office, warehouse, industrial, speaking in 1987 about Jobbers Canyon, J. All of Omahas largest and most notable wholesale and mercantile businesses built massive warehouse structures in the area by the early 20th century. Six and seven story red brick buildings filled with jobbing houses towered over red brick streets, the area included the Kingman Implement Company building, also called the U. S. Tire building, located at 923 Farnam Street and it was built in 1900 as a six-story brick Renaissance Revival style structure. Kingman was a distributor of farm implements and vehicles. The Fairbanks, Morse and Company building at 923 Farnam Street was six stories tall and it was designed in 1907 by Omaha architects Fisher and Lawrie. In 1907 Fairbanks, Morse and Company was the largest manufacturer of gasoline, kerosene, in 1906, architect Charles Cleves designed a six story building for the U. S. Supply Company, which distributed of wholesale steam, water and plumbing supplies, the Dempster Building was a five story Renaissance Revival style warehouse designed by Omaha architect John Latenser, Sr. in 1902. The Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company started as a retail pump and windmill shop in 1880 and eventually grew to become a major manufacturer of windmills. Architects Fisher & Lawrie designed another six story red brick structure in 1900 for the Lee-Glass-Andreesen Hardware Company. They were wholesalers of hardware, cutlery and tinware, the eight story Creighton Block was built for John A. Creighton to house the Byrne and Hammer Dry Goods Company, the most ornate building in Jobbers Canyon, this Renaissance Revival style structure was designed by architect Charles Cleves. Today the Greenhouse Apartments at 900 Farnam Street are the building left from the original Jobbers Canyon. The Nash Block at 902 Farnam Street was designed by Thomas R. Kimball, agriculture-related industries have always been important to Omahas workforce
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Jobbers Canyon Historic District
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The M.E. Smith Building, designed by Fredrick S. Stott, built in 1920 and formerly located at 201 South 10th Street. It was demolished in 1989.
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Crime in Omaha
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As a major industrial city into the mid-20th century, Omaha shared in social tensions of larger cities that accompanied rapid growth and many new immigrants and migrants. Since the 1990s crime has been reduced for the city overall, according to crime statistics released by the FBI, Omahas rate of violent crimes per 100,000 residents has been lower than the average rates of three dozen cities of similar size. Omahas rate of violent crime was 601.1 in 2005, unlike Omaha, violent crime overall for those cities has trended upward since 2003. Rates for property crime have decreased for both Omaha and its peer cities during the time period. In 2006 Omaha was ranked for homicides as 46th out of the 72 cities in the United States of more than 250,000 in population, Omaha had an early history as a wide open town where prostitution, gambling, drugs and alcohol were accepted. There were no law enforcement officers until after the city was incorporated. On February 12,1857, the city of Omaha was incorporated, in March 1866, the city council enlarged the police force to four men. Prostitution was a trade in early Omaha, and sex workers in the Burnt District numbered 1,500 by the 1870s. In 1868, the City Council created the position of Police Judge, later that year, the City Council directed members of the force to provide themselves with dark blue, single breasted coats, shirts and pants of the same material. They were required to have caps with a plate in the front marked City Police. Between 1869 and 1882 the size of the department fluctuated, reaching 14 officers in 1882, in 1884, Marshal Roger T. Guthrie was convicted and imprisoned for accepting a bribe. This stopped homesteading in the area, while the common practice ended, early land grabs were fruitful. Lots in one of the plots were subdivided to form Scriptown. Because of the lack of force, in early years groups sometimes resorted to lynchings. Victims were likely to be outsiders, transient workers or laborers who did not live in the city, in the West and South, victims were lynched for alleged crimes of property as well as of violence. In 1891 there was the first recorded lynching in Omaha of an African American, a mob lynched George Smith, a worker from Council Bluffs across the river. He had allegedly raped a white woman, no one was tried for Coes murder. At the start of the 20th century, Madam Anna Wilson ran a brothel in the Sporting District
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Omaha Police Station located at 505 South 15th Street.
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Omaha Police horsebarn located at South Seventh and Leavenworth Streets.
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Neighborhoods of Omaha, Nebraska
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The neighborhoods of Omaha are a diverse collection of community areas and specific enclaves. They are spread throughout the Omaha metro area, and are all on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, Omahas original neighborhoods were clustered around the original settlement area near 12th and Jackson Streets. On the southwest corner of that intersection William P. Snowden, early neighborhoods included the Sporting District and the Burnt District. In the early decades after settlement the city expanded, building the Near North Side, Sheelytown, the boundaries of Omaha have changed significantly since its founding, with the city growing through subdivisions and annexations. The following areas of the city were incorporated towns which have been annexed by the city of Omaha, Beechwood was located near the now-gone Florence Lake in East Omaha. It had its own district, and the site is now occupied by several trailer courts. Benson is a neighborhood of north-central Omaha near 60th and Maple Streets, Dundee is a neighborhood in central Omaha near 50th and Dodge Streets. Originally a separate city, Dundee was annexed by Omaha in 1915, Elkhorn takes its name from the Elkhorn River and was incorporated by an act of the territorial legislature in 1889. It was annexed by Omaha on March 8,2005 after a court battle. Elkhorn became part of Omaha on March 1,2007, the original town site is near 204th St. and West Maple Road in West Omaha. Florence is a neighborhood in far north Omaha, the original Mormon settlement in Florence, called Cutlers Park, predated the founding of Omaha in 1846. Florence was annexed by Omaha in 1917, hayes was a historic town located two miles from Bennington that evaporated in the 1870s, when the railroad failed to come to the town. Millard is an area of southwest Omaha, originally a separate city. The original town site is near 132nd and Q Streets, Saratoga is a historic neighborhood in North Omaha. The town was founded, boomed and busted within one year and its legacy includes a school, library and businesses still in the area. Several nearby cities and towns operate as suburbs of Omaha, the largest is Bellevue, which may be the oldest settlement in Nebraska and is the states third largest city. It is located just south of Omaha in eastern Sarpy County, Bennington was founded in the 1880s and was originally called Bunz Town. Located northwest of the city, it was a key stop along the Fremont, Elkhorn, Carter Lake, Iowa, which was formerly on the eastern side of the Missouri River, today sits nestled into Nebraska
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Downtown -lime,
East -peach,
Midtown -blue-gray,
North -red,
South -pink,
West -lavender
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Little Italy (Omaha, Nebraska)
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Little Italy is a neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska. The community is bounded by Pacific Street on the north, Center Street on the south, South 10th Street on the west and it is located immediately south of the Burlington Train Station and the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District. In June 2008, the City of Omaha has announced plans to revitalize the area because of its proximity to Nebraskas top two tourist attractions, the Old Market District and the Henry Doorly Zoo. The plan calls for 10th Street to be improved with a line, treelines, parks, fountains. Omahas first Italian enclave developed during the 1890s near the intersection of South 24th Street and it was formed by immigrants from southern Italy and migrants from eastern American cities. Two brothers, Joseph and Sebastiano Salerno, are credited with creating Little Italy, when Sebastiano took a job as an agent for a steamship company in 1904, he encouraged friends from Sicily to emigrate. Joseph then secured boarding and jobs for the immigrants, particularly in downtown Omahas Union Pacific shops, in 1905, Sicilian immigrants settled along South 6th Street in the hills south of downtown. Additional waves of Sicilians arrived between 1912 and 1913 and following World War I, South 10th Street was also particularly important to the Italian community. The Immigration Act of 1924 was largely responsible for ending large-scale immigration of Italians to Omaha, during the Prohibition era, much of the Omahas bootleg liquor was produced in Little Italy. In 1930, Omaha city boss Tom Dennison placed Frank Calamia, later, from 1946 to 1951, Calamia controlled the local outlet of a national race wire service, distributed racing results received from the mob-controlled Harmony News Service in Kansas City. According to one expert, Little Italy native Tony Biase was the leading Mafioso in Omaha through the 1970s. Today the Festival of Santa Lucia, which was started by Grazia Caniglia, is celebrated throughout Little Italy. An annual festival called La Festa is held to unite the citys Italian community, many other remnants of Little Italy endure, making this area distinct within the city. Little Italy was home to several restaurants popular in Omaha, including Sparetime Cafe, Trentinos, Caniglias Pizzeria, and Cascios, Italian restaurants in other parts of the city were also built by Italians from Little Italy. The Cornish Residence is one of Omahas best examples of Second Empire style architecture, and Santa Lucia Hall, in 2007 Caniglias was razed, and was replaced with townhomes. Giuseppe Mario Bellanca Anthony J. Biase Joe Bubs Jeremy Caniglia Michele Pane Angelo Rossitto Pat Venditte History of Omaha A photo from the Feast of Saint Lucy in Little Italy in Omaha, the Dunsany Flats condominium development website includes information about the revitalization plans for the neighborhood. The Americanization of the Italian-American Immigrants in Omaha, Nebraska, university of Nebraska - Lincoln Chudacoff, H. A New Look At Ethnic Neighborhoods, Residential Dispersion and the Concept of Visibility in a Medium-Sized City
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Caniglia's Restaurant at 1114 South 7th Street.
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Burlington Station (Omaha, Nebraska)
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When it was opened in 1898, this Italianate style building, designed by Thomas Rogers Kimball, was hailed by newspapers around the world for its grand architecture and accommodations. The Burlington Station is a property to the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, and sits southeast of the Old Market. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, serving the Midwest since its founding in 1850, in addition to transporting Nebraskas farm produce to other areas of the country, The Burlington Railroad also handled mail through the area from 1884 to 1972. The railroad was influential in the growth of Omaha and Nebraska, later that year, construction was halted due to Union Pacifics financial difficulties, and in 1897 the Burlington announced plans to build a new station. Famed Omaha architect Thomas Rogers Kimball designed the building, the main lobby featured a grand circular staircase that led passengers downstairs to track level and the trains. A large canopy, a first for an Omaha train station, the spacious lobby included new amenities, such as separate mens and womens waiting rooms, a gentlemans smoking room, and a sit-down lunch counter. The interior featured Sienna marble columns, and mosaic floors with the staircase accented with bronze castings of Rocky Mountain Sheep heads, the total cost of the station was $408,000.00, a very impressive amount for the day. The building attracted considerable attention for its pristine beauty and it is an artistic gem and looks like a Grecian Temple. Although great attention was lavished on the proportions and styling of the station. Since the two-story depot was built next to the 10th Street viaduct and this portico featured twenty-eight massive Colorado granite columns. The walls of the depot were built of gray brick and buff Indiana limestone. The Burlington Station was extensively remodeled from 1929 to 1930 to compete with a new Union Station, the remodeling was completed on September 4,1930, and a grand public ceremony was held. Among the changes celebrated that day was a new restaurant that was to open for the next thirty years. The remodeling in 1930 changed the building to conform to the elements of the Neo-Classical Revival, which simplified the exterior, removing the granite columns, twenty-four of the original columns were moved intact to Lincoln, where today they stand between Memorial Stadium and the Coliseum. The remodeling also included raising the roof-line over the main waiting room, the walls were decorated in a new motif including a border of gold medallions. Four large lanterns were installed, each weighing more than a ton, during the late 1960s train travel was greatly reduced and several areas of the station fell into disrepair. Also in 1974 the Burlington Train Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, since its closing, the station saw futile attempts at reopening as business offices, and as a warehouse. In 1985, the interior was gutted by an architectural salvager who removed, the four enormous chandeliers were taken down, one of which was broken and was sold in pieces
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Burlington Station
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Former front entrance of the Burlington Station from a 1910 postcard.
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Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District
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The Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, roughly bounded by Jackson, 15th, and 8th Streets, as well as the Union Pacific main line, is located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Today this historic district includes several buildings listed individually on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Union Pacific Depot, the Union Pacific Railroad was of central importance to the growth of Omaha, particularly between 1887 and 1945. Buildings in the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District were built to serve business related to the line of the transcontinental railroad. Large warehouses, manufacturing warehouses, transfer and storage companies, today, the buildings border the Old Market, and serve as apartments, artist studios and other commercial enterprises. Several buildings within the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places or are significant for their local history, railroads in Omaha Jobbers Canyon Historic District Old Market Historic District Warehouses in Omaha MPS
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