In 1917, the University of Nebraska selected an 80-acre parcel near Union to establish a demonstration farm to show the possibility of developing commercial orchards.
The festival is in Nebraska City each September and brings thousands of visitors to the city and apple orchards. It’s an opportunity to go back into time.
The National Park Service lists the cabin on its Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Mayhew Cabin, Historic Village and John Brown CaveĪs one of Nebraska’s oldest structures, the Mayhew Cabin is the only existing Nebraska building known to have harbored abolitionists and possibly fugitive slaves. Somebody could let me know in the comments? I thought I remembered hearing that some schools were closed for it but I could be wrong. There are many institutions including banks, government buildings and possibly schools that are closed for Arbor Day. Is Arbor Day a big deal? Well around here it is for some. The family donated the neoclassical mansion to the state to preserve it as a monument to their parents. What you see today, known as the Arbor Lodge, was built by Morton’s son on the site of his parents’ house. Then they built a frame home in Nebraska City sometime between 18. Sterling and Garoline Morton was a log cabin in Bellevue. It is the state’s tree planting holiday established in 1872. Sterling Morton ended up being one of the founders of Arbor Day. He said “You, the farmers of Nebraska are its prime architects and its master workmen.”ġ4 years later he gave another speech that supposedly lasted three hours to a state fair audience in Lincoln. Two years before the start of the Civil War he parked a farm wagon in the shade of an oak tree and delivered his first speech. Sterling Morton was known to give speeches. The chief of the Otoe Tribe was Ar-Ke-Kee-Tah which means “Tribal Guardian.” Arbor Day Do better.Įstablished in 1854, Otoe County was named after the Otoe Tribe. That courthouse looks like an old elementary school building. While it didn’t leap frog Cass County for the best looking courthouse in the state, it might be second to this point.
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