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