The history of Omaha, Nebraska began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from the neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking ground in the Missouri River illegally in the early 1840s. Before it was legitimate to claim land in the State of India, William D. Brown operated the Lone Tree Ferry to bring the settlers from Council Bluffs to Omaha. An agreement with the Omaha Tribe enabled the creation of the Nebraska Territory, and Omaha City was founded on July 4, 1854. With early settlements coming claiming jumper and squatters, and the formation of a vigilante legal group called Omaha Claim Club, which is one of the many clubs claimed in throughout the Midwest. During this period many of the founding fathers of the city received much in Scriptown, which was made possible by the actions of the Omaha Claim Club. Club violence led to the US Supreme Court trial, Baker v. Morton , leading to the end of the organization.
Surrounded by small towns and cities competing for business from farmers in the interior, the city suffered a major setback in Panic of 1857. Nonetheless, Omaha quickly emerged as the largest city in Nebraska. After losing the Nebraska State Capitol to Lincoln in 1867, many business leaders gathered and created Jobbers Canyon in downtown Omaha for clothing farmers in Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming and further west. The success of their entrepreneur allows them to build luxury homes in Kountze Place and the Old Gold Coast neighborhood.
With the development of Omaha Stockyards and packing house neighbors in the 1870s, several worker housing areas, including Sheelytown, developed in South Omaha. Its growth was so fast that it was called "The Wonder City". The later part of the 19th century also saw the formation of several fraternal organizations, including the formation of the Knights of Aksarben. The city leaders united to create the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in 1898. During the Expo, famous madarka Anna Wilson and Ada Everleigh made a good life out of the crowd. At the same time, Tom Dennison's boss exacerbated city crime in the famous Sports District, with the full support of the mayor of eight "Cowboy" James Dahlman. Many of these early pioneers were buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery. The city leaders created Omaha University in 1908.
With administrative reforms in the 1930s and 40s, the city became a center for meat packaging. Several regional breweries were developed, including Metz, Storz and Krug. The southern area of ​​the city became home to the Strategic Air Command in the late 1940s; in 1950, Rosenblatt Stadium in South Omaha hosted the World Series of Higher Education. The labor unrest of the 1930s resulted in the organization of a packing plant by the CIO-FCW, which built interracial partnerships and achieved tangible benefits for workers for decades.
After World War II, blacks in Omaha like in other parts of the country began to press harder for civil rights. The veterans believe they are entitled to full rights after the struggle for the state. Several organizations have formed, but they become more active, leading to the Civil Rights movement of the city.
Suburbanization and highway expansion led to flights to new housing and middle and upper class development in West Omaha from the 1950s to the 1970s. Historically ethnically diverse regions of North and South Omaha are becoming more concentrated by economies, races, and classes. These workers suffered dramatic job losses during the rapidly growing industrial restructuring of the 1960s, and poverty became wider.
Video History of Omaha, Nebraska
White contact with Native Americans
The location of Omaha near the confluence of the Missouri River and Platte River has long made the location a key transfer point for people and goods. Since the 17th century, Pawnee, Otoe, Sioux, and Ioway all occupied the land that became Omaha. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries when they were the most powerful Indians along the Missouri River north of Platte, the Omaha state moved on the west bank of Bellevue, Nebraska today.
Prior to the formation of European-American cities, many Indian tribes had inhabited the area, including Pawnee, Otoe, Sioux, Missouri, and Ioway. They have developed the semi-nomadic lifestyle necessary to survive in the Great Plains. The Pawnee and Otoe tribes have inhabited this region for hundreds of years when the Siouan Omaha tribe arrived from the lower Ohio valley at the beginning of the 18th century. Translated, the word "Omaha" (actually U-Mo'n-Ho'n ) means "Dwellers on the Bluff". Usually the word is translated "against the current" but in cases without citing any source.
After the plague of smallpox, and suffering from cultural degradation, disease, buffalo abatement, and sustained property losses, in 1856 Omaha sold their final claim and moved to their current reservation in the north in Thurston County, Nebraska.
Maps History of Omaha, Nebraska
European Settlement
On July 21, 1804, Lewis and Clark Expeditions passed the river bank which later became the city of Omaha. On July 22, the Corps of Discovery established a camp near the current Bellevue for five nights, calling it "Camp White Catfish." On the 27th, William Clark and Ruben Fields investigated a mysterious mound of land close to 8th place and Douglas Streets and Heartland of America Park currently in Downtown Omaha. That night they camped in an area that is Eppley Airfield today. The expedition stopped at a point about 20 miles (30 km) north of Omaha at this time, at which point they first met Otoe. They held a council meeting with tribal leaders on the west side of the Missouri River. The first recorded example of a black man in the Omaha area is "York", an enslaved African American who accompanied William Clark in the Expedition.
The Astor Expedition appeared in 1811. Stephen Long passed through the Omaha area in 1819 on the Platte River Expedition. A decade later, adventurers and feather merchants often visited the area, trading at Fort Lisa, built by Manuel Lisa in 1806; Fort Atkinson, was built in 1819 as a military post adjacent to the location of the previous council meeting; and Trading Post Cabanne, built by the American Fur Company in 1822.
In 1825, a feather trader named J.B. Royce built fortifications and trading posts in the highlands near the present-day blocs formed by Dodge Street and Capitol Avenue, Ninth and Tenth Streets. The establishment was abandoned and decayed within the next 20 years.
In the 1840s the Mormons built a town called Cutler's Park in the area before continuing their western migration to the Mormon Strip.
In 1854 Logan Fontenelle and the Omaha Tribe sold most of their tribal land, four million hectares (16,000 km²), to the United States less than 22 cents a hectare. This allows the completion of the Nebraska Territory and the establishment of Omaha City. That year, the Territory's establishment in the Kansas-Nebraska Act was based on the condition that it remained slave-free.
Pioneer Omaha: 1853 to 1867
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In 1853, William D. Brown operated the Lone Tree Ferry to transport California Gold Rush gold seekers and Oregon Trail settlers across the river between Kanesville, Iowa and the Nebraska Region. The Lone Tree Ferry eventually became Council Bluffs and the Nebraska Ferry Company. "Omaha City" hosted by Council Bluffs & amp; Nebraska Ferry Company to lure proposed transcontinental railways to Council Bluffs. Alfred D. Jones, Omaha City's first postmaster, traveled the city site in early 1854, months after the Kansas-Nebraska Act created the Nebraska Territory. The first blacks in Omaha arrived in 1854.
While the city is young, there are no formal police or sheriffs, or at least one with significant authority. Compensation for the absence of law, many early Omaha pioneers formed club claims to create and enforce the legal system for their benefit. Omaha Claim Club takes authority over many areas of the new city, generally focused on issues related to land. In the 1860s, ten years after the formation of the city, the early citizens also created the Old Peel Association to record the early history of the settlement.
In addition to Omaha, settlements and other cities in the area include Fontenelle's Post which was founded in 1806; Fort Lisa founded 1806; Park Culter, founded in 1846; Bellevue, settled in 1804 and founded 1853; East Omaha, founded 185 ?; and Saratoga, founded 1857. Firenze City was crammed by James C. Mitchell in 1854 and founded in 1855.
The first minister in Omaha was Moses F. Shinn, a leader of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Council Bluffs. Most of Omaha's early pioneers, including Nebraska Region politicians, soldiers from Fort Omaha and the early African-American community, are buried at Prospect Hill Cemetery in North Omaha. Beginning in 1887, Douglas County officials began recording the burial of the poor and unidentified people in the field of Potter. Located in Far North Omaha, today Potter's Field is managed by Forest Lawn Cemetery, located nearby. There is speculation that the Mormon pioneers were buried there in the 1850s, as well.
The Nebraska State Capitol was moved from Omaha in 1867.
Nebraska Territory Capitol
In late 1854, Omaha was chosen as the territorial capital for Nebraska. In 1855, while taking land, a group of entrepreneurs formed the Omaha Land Company and installed Scriptown to reward the Nebraska Region legislators for their voice as a state. After Baker v. Morton in 1857, such baron-like behavior was made illegal; by then many had been developed and Scriptown quickly became part of several neighborhoods, including Gifford Park, Prospect Hill and the Near North Side.
The small town was miserable in the economic Panic of 1857; However, the presence of the capital is credited for keeping the city alive. For several years, Omaha enjoyed his status as the capital of the Nebraska Territory, though not without contention. In January 1858, a group of representatives illegally transferred the Nebraska Territorial Legislature to Florence following a loud explosion at the State Capitol in Omaha. After repeatedly dropped from voting for the Capitol transfer from Omaha, a small battle pitted representatives from the cities of Nebraska, Florence, and other communities to gather outside Omaha. Despite having a majority of members present for a vote to remove the Capitol and all agree, the "Florence Legislature" unsuccessfully shook the governor of the Nebraska Territory, and the Capitol remained in Omaha until 1867 when Nebraska gained statehood. When Omaha finally lost capital to Lincoln in 1867, the city was then strong enough to sustain economic growth for a certain period of time.
Business
While Council Bluffs was chosen as the eastern end of the first continental trains of the United States in 1862 with the passage of the Pacific Railway Act, railroad construction started west of Omaha to avoid the difficulty of building bridges across the Missouri River. This ensures that Omaha will be a major transportation hub for the entire country in the coming years. Cable Tramway Omaha Company is the only cable train company operating in Omaha. Founded in 1884, it operated the car until 1894. The warehousing sector became dominant from the start, with Canyon Jobber playing an important role. Other efforts including market houses and various hotels are not as successful as anything else.
Development Era: 1868 to 1899
Cities established during this period include Benson, founded in 1887; Chalco, foundÃ, ?; Dundee, founded 1880; Elkhorn, founded in 1865; Papillion, founded 1870; Ralston, founded 1888; South Omaha, founded in 1886, and; Millard, founded in 1871.
In 1856, the Omaha Claim Club donated two lots for the congregation to build the church, and as soon as the Baptist, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Episcopalists and Roman Catholics followed. Catholics sanctify St. Catherine's Cathedral. Philomena in 1856, and the entire Creighton family, including Edward, his wife, Mary, and his brother John strongly support the Catholic Church. Banker pioneer Augustus Kountze called for and financially supported the establishment of the first Lutheran church west of the Missouri River, later called the Immanuel Lutheran Church and located in the center of the city. It was renamed after Kountze's father in the 1880s. In 1871 the Omaha Jewish community bought land to make its first grave.
In 1879 the trial Standing Bear v. Crook was held in Fort Omaha. During the trial General Crook testified on behalf of Standing Bear, leading the court to recognize American Indians as people. This is the first time this has happened in the US Federal Court.
In the 1880s, Omaha was said to be the fastest growing city in the United States. After Irish birth James E. Boyd established the first packing in Omaha in the 1870s, thousands of immigrants from central and southern Europe came to Omaha to work at Union Stockyards and slaughterhouses in South Omaha. They created the original ethnic neighborhood of Omaha, with names like Sheelytown, the Greek Town, Little Italy, Little Bohemia, and Little Poland. Other environments established during this period include Bemis Park, Country Club, Dog Hollow, and Field Club. The Near North is also highly developed during this period, with a high concentration of Jews and Germans, and the first group of African-Americans.
Omaha's growth accelerated in the 1880s by the rapid development of Union Stockyards and the meat packing industry in South Omaha. The packing of "Big Four" during this time is Armor, Wilson, Cudahy, and Swift. There are several factories established throughout the city during this period. The "Big Four" factories in Omaha are the factories Storz, Krug, Willow Springs and Metz.
The culture in Omaha grew extensively during this era. With the increase in population, many social organizations, fraternities and advocacy formed in Omaha at the end of the 19th century. The city's premier newspaper, Omaha Bee and Omaha World-Herald, was founded in 1874 and 1885, respectively. Omaha is the location of the 1892 convention that formed the Populist Party, with an appropriate title entitled Omaha Platform written by "radical farmers" from across the Midwest.
In 1894, the Women Axillary of the Ancient Order Hibernian, a nationalist Irish-Catholic fraternal organization, was founded in Omaha. That year the city was also the site of the first African-American exhibition held in the United States. The following year, the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, a civil and philanthropic organization, was founded.
The Trans-Mississippi exhibition was held in North Omaha from 1 June to 1 November 1898. The exposition attracted over 2 million visitors. Therefore, it is necessary to develop tourist objects that include 100 city blocks, including lagoons, bridges, and magnificent (though temporary) buildings constructed of plaster and horsehair. The Exposition also features a number of performances, including Wild West Show Buffalo Bill and Everleigh House. Run by Ada and Minna Everleigh, the house continued to operate until 1900, when the two women moved to Chicago.
This period also saw the emergence of a formal crime in Omaha that preceded the arrival of Tom Dennison. The Sporting District is an area in downtown Omaha where many of the city's representative activities take place, including gambling, prostitution and transplants. Anna Wilson was an early lady who started her career in Omaha. He finally opened a 25-room brothel in Ninth and Douglas Streets. She is an old romantic partner of Dan Allen, a famous and successful river boat lover in Omaha. Kidnapping 1900 Edward Cudahy, Jr. in the Old Gold Coast neighborhood caused a national uproar. The perpetrator, Pat Crowe, became a nationally renowned author and lecturer on criminal justice reform.
Establishment Era: 1900 to 1941
In the decades before World War II, Omaha experienced a prosperous period marked by rapid growth, cultural growth and population growth throughout the city. African Americans were recruited to work by the meat packing industry and came North in the Greatest Migration in the highest number after 1910. This was also the highest immigration period by Polish workers. A number of new residents set up communities throughout the city, the older immigrant population becoming more assimilated into urban culture, and growth housed in an environment built north and south of Downtown Omaha. The early 1910s saw Car Row's growth in the city along Farnam Street.
The city suffered greatly during the Great Depression. Federal interventions throughout the 1930s were crucial for many residents. The Work Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) projects employ many men in the project to build park infrastructure and community facilities. All of the city's core is currently surrounded by farms in this period, with buildings such as Ackerhurst Dairy Barn showing the phase.
Sports
Omaha University was founded at Redick Mansion in the Kountze Place neighborhood in 1908, moved to their current campus in 1929. Their soccer team played on the grounds of the Saratoga School until 1952.
Omaha Omahogs is a baseball team that started in 1900 as part of a new Western League. Their name changed to Indian Omaha in 1902. In 1904, the team was revealed as the Omaha Packers, and in 1906 as Omaha Rourkes. They kept the name until 1921, when the name changed to Buffalo Omaha, which was trapped until 1928 when it changed to Omaha Crickets. In 1930 the team changed its name back to Omaha Packers, and kept the name until 1935, when they moved to Council Bluffs and then folded. A new team named Omaha Robin Hoods was formed in 1936, but moved to Rock Island, Illinois at the end of the year. The reform team soon thereafter as Omaha Cardinals, who remained like that for several years.
Greek City Riot
New immigrants jostle for positions with those who arrive early and the competition for jobs and places is very strong. Many immigrant ethnic groups are highly territorial. In 1909 a mob of 1,000 ethnic white men from South Omaha almost stalked a Greek man for allegedly involving a "white" woman. After their efforts were thwarted, the mob grew and stormed into the Greek City, where they destroyed houses, businesses, and schools; beat Greek immigrants; and destroyed the area by burning it. No one was indicted for any aspect of the riots.
Easter Sunday Tornado
In 1913 the tornado destroyed the tearing of Omaha, becoming known as the Easter Sunday tornado. It killed more than 100 people, destroyed hundreds of homes, and cut a long road across town, including the heart of Jewish commercial and North African-North Omaha, which suffered the most damage.
Omaha Race Riot
Social tensions are boiling in the postwar years, when the state adjusts to returning veterans, competition for jobs, and fears about labor unrest. After a summer of race riots in various industrial cities across the country, Omaha is also tense. The newspaper has been fueling feelings with sensational stories that accuse blacks of committing crimes. The black population increased dramatically from 1910-1920 when they were recruited to work in livestock storage. When many black men work as strikers, annoyance by other working class, ethnic white people rise up against them. "Independent political boss" Tom Dennison was later involved in contributing to racial tensions in a bid to change the mayor of reform.
The spark of the Omaha Racing riots of 1919 occurred when a black man named Will Brown was arrested and accused of raping a young white woman from South Omaha. A group of young white ethnic people marched from South Omaha (united and led by Dennison's henchmen) and gathered at the Douglas Courthouse, where the prison was located. At night the crowd grew and burned the courthouse, forcing the police to hand Brown over to them. They punished him, hung him from a lamppost on the south side of the courthouse, then dragged him into the street and set him on fire. The masses are mostly European-born immigrants and ethnic European Americans. The mayor attempted to intervene and was also hanged; he was only rescued by a last-minute rescue by a federal agent. The city must seek help from the Federal forces to quell the disturbance, and their arrival is delayed due to a series of communication problems. The commander placed troops in South Omaha to prevent more mobs from forming, and in North Omaha to protect blacks.
In 1998, Max Sparber's drama about the event was produced by the Blue Barn Theater at Douglas County Courthouse, where the riots. It's done in several other cities as well.
Social and cultural development
Job's Daughters International, the Masonic youth organization for girls, was founded in Omaha in 1920. Aleph Zadik Aleph, the Order of the Youth Organization B'nai B'rith, started in 1923 as a college fraternity.
In 1925 Malcolm X was born (as Malcolm Little) at 3446 Pinkney Street in North Omaha. His father's minister moved his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when Malcolm was one year after threats to their lives from Ku Klux Klan due to his father's activist.
The Nebraska chapter of the German-American National Alliance (NGAA) was founded and led by Valentin J. Peter, the publisher and editor of the German Omaha Tribune in 1907. In 1920 the organization worked closely with factories throughout cities to challenge the complete political and social assimilation of German immigrants in Nebraska. During the same period, Peter bought other German-language newspapers across the United States. NGAA folded in the late 1920s; Peter's Business, Interstate Publishing Company, is still operating in Omaha today.
Tom Dennison
The government of Omaha Tom Dennison's political boss ended in 1933. For more than thirty-five years, he controlled gambling, drinking, prostitution, and other criminal interests throughout Omaha, especially in the seedy Sports District. He controls the operation of smuggling in Little Italy through the Banning Era. He is allied with James Dahlman, the 8-month mayor of Omaha. Dennison was involved in the agitation of groups associated with the Omaha Race riots of 1919.
World War II
In 1945, Enola Gay and Bockscar were two of the 536 B-29 Superfortresses produced at Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Factory (now Offutt Air Force Base) in suburban Bellevue.
That same year a Japanese fire balloon exploded over Dundee. The incident was part of a large World War II campaign by the Japanese military to cause mass chaos in American cities. The story was suppressed by the American military until after the war, because no one was hurt in the blast.
The Age of Civil Rights Movement
Civil rights activism in Omaha began in 1912 with the creation of a local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. That continues for years to come under the influence of local leaders Whitney Young, George Wells Parker and Harry Haywood. Other organizations were formed such as the Citizenship Citizenship Committee for Civil Liberties (4CL) and DePorres Club at Creighton University in the 1940s. Mainstream organizations including the Omaha Urban League (now the Urban League of Nebraska) also support the movement, as do CIO unions at meatpacking plants. Their success leads to the end of the lean and discriminatory environmental agreements, and the implementation of school integration plans. In the late 1960s, the Student-led Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity (BANTU) adopted a militant posture and engaged in confrontation with police after the shooting of youths in housing projects.
The Transformative Era: 1950 to 1999
In 1950, the NCAA moved the College World Series (CWS) into Rosenblatt Stadium (later known as the Omaha City Stadium). Beginning in 1947, the tournament was held in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1947 and 1948, and Wichita, Kansas in 1949. Since 1950 this series has been held annually at Rosenblatt, although there are offers from several cities to move CWS elsewhere. More than 6,000,000 fans have attended CWS matches in Omaha. The city of Omaha has regularly expanded and renovated the stadium to accommodate fans, teams, and media covering the event. ESPN broadcasted every game of the event from 1980 to 1987. ESPN started coverage again as the championship series went into the best-of-3 format in 2003. From 1988 to 2002, CBS broadcasted a championship match: a single winner-take-all game.
In 1955, Omaha Cardinals joined the AAA American Association, and grew until the late 1950s. The team was folded in 1959. In 1961-62, Omaha Dodgers was a farming team for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After the city went six years without a professional team, the Omaha Royals started in 1969. The Omaha Royals became Omaha Storm Chaser in 2011.
In the 1960s, Omaha Stockyards has become the largest livestock processing center in the world. They surpassed Chicago Stock Yards in the late 1950s. Organized success in hard work acquired was eroded as a restructured industry in the 1980s and 1990s. The improved cooling capability of trucks and cooling boxes encourages the slaughter process to move closer to the feeding site. Plants were moved to rural areas and employed non-union workers. All central stockyard activity declined and Omaha Stockyards closed in 1999. The new generation of immigrants works in packing meat; now they are mostly Hispanics from Mexico, and Central and South America.
The weather was so severe in 1975. In January, the city was paralyzed by a devastating snowstorm that caused eleven or ninety inches of snow in the city. In May the city was hit by a tornado. Omaha Tornado 1975 is an F4 tornado that ripped the neighborhood along 72nd Street on May 6, 1975, killing 3 people and injuring 133. In the event of damage, it was the most expensive tornado in American history up to that date, with an estimated damage between $ 250 million and $ 500 million.
In 1988, Omaha destroyed the downtown district of a brick warehouse called Jobbers Canyon, listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The destruction and withdrawal of Jobbers Canyon became the avenue for ConAgra Foods' headquarters and Heartland of America Park in the city. The loss of these buildings also makes people more excited to pay more attention to the historic structure of the city.
New Era: 2000 to present
On August 20, 2001, Nebraska Methodist Health Systems destroyed the Indian Hills Theater, a movie theater "super-Cinerama" which contains the largest indoor screen of its kind in the world. The location of the Indian Hills Theater now serves as a parking lot.
The downtown area has experienced a revival in the late 1990s and the beginning of the first decade of the 21st century, with several billion dollars of new development. New developments include the arena/convention center Qwest Center Omaha, Dutch Performing Arts Center, Gallup University campus, River City Star river landing, National Park Service Midwest Region headquarters, new high rise tower headquarters for First National Bank of Omaha, Union Pacific Railroad, TD Ameritrade Park, and hundreds of condo units. The National National Bank of Omaha Tower is the tallest building between Denver and Minneapolis, surpassing its top rival in Kansas City on one leg.
On Wednesday, December 5, 2007, a mass shoot took place at Von Maur's department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha. Robert A. Hawkins, nineteen, killed nine people (including himself) and injured four, two of whom were critical. It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the Charles Starkweather rampage in 1958.
On Thursday, October 1, 2015, ConAgra Foods (Fortune 500 company) announced that it moved its corporate headquarters from Omaha to Chicago. ConAgra estimates that of the 2,500 salaried workers in Omaha, 300 to 350 jobs will move to the Chicago area and another 1,000 will be eliminated. Initially it was not clear what would happen to the corporate campus downtown ConAgra.
Historic Places
Omaha has established many historic buildings and sites as a city landmark, including some dates from before the founding of the city. Some sites are also recognized as national interests and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Fort Lisa and Cabanne Trade Post sites, both located on the north end of the city, were first occupied in the early 19th century. Landmarks of the mid-19th century include Culter's Park, or "Winter Quarters" located in Florence, and Fontenelle's Post is located south of the city. The town center has a historical plaque marking the first building in Omaha and the first burial. The city has set up several landmarks in North Omaha, including the former town of Saratoga. South Omaha, Dundee, and Benson also have many historical buildings. Kountze Park is the site of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exhibition.
The fate of historic sites
The oldest historic site in Omaha is located in the Florence neighborhood. Other important sites include Capitol Hill, where the High School, where the city's founders held a picnic on July 4, 1854, and Miller's Landing, where the Lone Tree Ferry brought the settlers from Iowa. There is a plaque commemorating Capitol Hill, and Miller Landing was recently reclaimed and renovated by the city. The Prospect Hill cemetery, where many of the city's founders are buried, stands intact in North Omaha. One of the city's original parks is Jefferson Square, bordered by 15th, 16th, Farnam and Douglas Streets. It was the location of the first school and the first hot air balloon rides in Omaha, as well as the Town Market Building, which was destroyed 20 years after it was built. The park, dedicated 25 November 1865, was destroyed by the city on March 18, 1969.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, the urban renewal program in Omaha included destroying many important structures. One of the famous sites is the Bee Building in 17th and Farnam. Built in 1888 and destroyed in 1966, together with the Old Town Hall. The Old Post Office at 16th and Dodge Streets was built in 1898 and destroyed in 1966. The demolition of this building and the Old Town Hall is highly controversial because of the historical significance of the building, which serves to catalyze the movement of preservation of landmarks in the city.. Hotel Fontenelle is a downtown hotel center designed by local architect Thomas Rogers Kimball and built in 1913. After holding it vacant for almost twenty years, the owner tore down the building in 1983. Its Finder Around, also located in the center of the city, is large industrial and warehouse area consisting of 24 buildings. In 1989 another controversial dismantling occurred when the owner took all 24 buildings down. This represents the largest loss of the largest nationally-registered district to date.
The birthplace of Malcolm X, located in North Omaha, was demolished in 1965. The birthplace of Gerald R. Ford at 3202 Woolworth Avenue was the birthplace of the former president in 1913. The house was destroyed after a fire in 1971.
The Metz Brewery was the first in the Nebraska Territory, opened in 1856. The facility took place in Downtown Omaha until 1920, when the Prohibition forced the company to fold. The Willow Springs Distilling Company began spanning the 1860s and built a major facility near Downtown Omaha in the 1880s. The building was destroyed in the 1970s. The company that became Storz Brew Factory was established in Omaha in 1863. Storz built a large 16th Street factory in East Omaha with 15 buildings. The majority of them were destroyed in the 1990s, with only a few still standing today. In 1894, the Krug Factory in South Omaha built a brewery purchased by Falstaff. It was completely destroyed in 1996. Frederick Krug, founder of the brewery, began the Krug Park at 2936 North 52nd Street in Benson to advertise and sell his label. In 1930, the worst roller coaster accident in American history to date took place at Krug Park, and 10 years later the park was closed. Rebuilt as a traditional public park in 1955. Another amusement park called Peony Park, located at 78th and Cass Streets, was closed and destroyed in the 1990s.
In 1938, the federal government built the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project to help low-income families. Loss of jobs and demographic changes turn them into welfare centers of needy families. Years of neglecting to add to the problem. With a change in the idea of ​​public housing, the city demolished buildings in 1995. They rebuilt the area with mixed income housing and various supporting uses.
The Omaha Stockyards was founded in 1883, becoming the largest livestock storage in the world in the late 1950s and, together with meat packing, employs half of city workers. Soon after, the industry began to restructure and shift jobs to rural areas. Big job losses resulted in the city. After decades of decline, livestock was finally closed in 1999. All buildings were destroyed except for the Livestock Exchange Building. Its meaning is recognized when it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The city rebuilds buildings in complex public-private partnerships for mixed use, with more than 100 apartments, communities, and commercial spaces. This area has become a new campus site for community college. It will also be redeveloped for the use of other commercial, medical and light industries.
The Ak-Sar-Ben horse racing track was built in 1920, and the arena was built in 1929. The horse race ended there in 1995. Everything on the site, including the buildings and tribunes, was destroyed in 2005. The Indian Hills Theater is an example late-century architecture in a devastated city lately. Located on 78th and Dodge Streets, built in 1962 as the largest and last Super-Cinerama in the US.
The historic neighborhood of Omaha
See also
- List of Historic Historic Places of Interest in Douglas County
- The founding fathers of Omaha, Nebraska
- History of North Omaha, Nebraska
- North Chronology Omaha, Nebraska history
- Original character from Omaha, Nebraska
- Timeline of Racial Tension in Omaha, Nebraska
- The Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska
- Racial Tension in Omaha, Nebraska
- Douglas County Historical Society
- Washington County Historical Association
References
Further reading
- Larsen, Lawrence H. Hulu Metropolis: Omaha City Biography and Council Bluffs (2007)
- Fletcher Sasse, Adam. History of North Omaha, Volume 1 ; History of North Omaha, Volume 2 ; History of North Omaha, Volume 3 (2016)
External links
- Historic photos
- The History of Andreas Nebraska
- "Douglas County Historical Society"
- Early History of Omaha by former mayor Alfred Sorenson.
- "Omaha's Beginning: Gateway to the West" by the Omaha Public Library.
- Ford Conservation Center Nebraska State Historical Society.
- Florence Florence Futures Foundation's historic website.
- The Mardos Memorial Library displays the history of Douglas County.
- Old Nebraska News.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070223230744/http://www2.ops.org/OOE/index.htm "OMAHA Project" at Omaha South High School from the Internet Archive.
- The Sarpy City History Museum Site.
- Nebraska State Historical Society Site.
- A Brief History of Omaha, Nebraska
- WPA Omaha, Nebraska City Guide Project by the University of Nebraska Omaha. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library.
- Historical website of North Omaha.
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