County Resources:
Gage County
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Nebraska
Territory: 1855–1867
Statehood: 1 Mar 1867
37th state of the United States
Bordering states:
North: South Dakota
South: Kansas
East: Iowa, Missouri (SE)
West: Colorado, Wyoming
Capital: Lincoln
Largest city: Omaha
Map: Nebraska, 1876, (click map to enlarge), Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Counties: Original eight counties: Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Forney, Pierce, Richardson, and Washington. Nebraska County Creation Dates and Parent Counties. Counties in 2020: 93.
Institutions, Societies, and Government Websites
Brian P Croft, “Mapping Nebraska, 1866-1871: County Boundaries, Real and Imagined,” Nebraska History.
Nebraska Access, Nebraska Library Commission,
Nebraska State Historical Society Publications
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, vol. 1, Addison Erwin Sheldon, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1918.
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, vol. 2, Addison Erwin Sheldon, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1919.
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, vol. 3, Addison Erwin Sheldon, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1920.
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, vol. 4, Addison Erwin Sheldon, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1921.
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, vol. 5, Addison Erwin Sheldon, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1922.
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, vol. 6, Addison Erwin Sheldon, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1923.
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days, vol. 7, Addison Erwin Sheldon, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1923.
Maps
Nebraska Maps, Library of Congress
Nebraska Landowner Maps, Library of Congress
Interactive Map of Nebraska County Formation History, Maps of U.S.
Historical Maps Works: Nebraska
Manuscripts
Nebraska Manuscripts, Archive Grid
Nebraska Manuscripts, Library of Congress
Record Sets-State Level
Nebraska Record Sets (Ancestry Collections)
Nebraska Record Sets (Family Search)
Virtual Libraries
State of Nebraska
Johnson’s History of Nebraska, Harrison Johnson, 1880.
Outline of Nebraska History, Albert Watkins, 1910.
The Provisional Government of Nebraska Territory and The Journals of William Walker, William E. Connelley, editor, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1899.
Custer County
History of Custer County, Nebraska, 1919, W. L. Gaston and A. R. Humphrey
Portrait and biographical album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska, 1889, Chapman Brothers
Otoe County
Portrait and biographical album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska, 1889, Chapman Brothers
Additional websites
Historical Markers and War Memorials in Nebraska
Newspapers
Chronicling America, digitized: Nebraska
Community History Archive Newspapers: Nebraska
Small Town Newspapers
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