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I maintain an interest in North Omaha, Nebraska.

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[edit] To-Do's

Further information: List of articles related to North Omaha, Nebraska
  • Omaha Public Power District
  • Category:People from North Omaha, Nebraska
  • Category:Landmarks in North Omaha, Nebraska
  • Omaha Housing Authority
  • Near North Omaha neighborhoodod
  • Gold Coast (Omaha, Nebraska) neighborhood
  • Beechwood, Nebraska neighborhood
  • Bemis Park neighborhood
  • Music in North Omaha, Nebraska
  • Education in North Omaha, Nebraska
  • Stone Cold Picnic
  • Native Omaha Days
  • St. Joseph's Hospital
  • Wesley House
  • Lizzie Robinson House
  • Joslyn Castle
  • Logan Fontenelle Projects
  • Miller Park (Omaha, Nebraska
  • Dodge Park (Omaha, Nebraska
  • Hummel Park
  • Danish Vennelyst Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Boyd Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Fontenelle Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Adams Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Benson Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Bemis Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Memorial Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • St. Louis Missouri Fur Trading Company
  • DePorres Club
  • Black Association for Nationalism Through Unity
  • Citizens Civic Committee for Civil Liberties
  • Frank Brown (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Florence Depot
  • Florence Firehouse
  • Florence Mill
  • Mormon Bridge Tollhouse
  • Florence Water Works
  • Dreamland Ballroom
  • Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church
  • St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Holy Family Catholic Church (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Academy of the Sacred Heart (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Notre Dame Academy and Convent
  • Pearl Memorial United Methodist Church
  • Springwell Danish Cemetery
  • Golden Hill Jewish Cemetery
  • Potter's Field Cemetery
  • Temple Israel Cemetery aka Pleasant Hill Jewish Cemetery
  • Forest Lawn Cemetery (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Nebraska School for the Deaf
  • General Crook House
  • Fort Omaha Balloon School
  • Havens-Page House
  • Holy Family Catholic Church (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Jewell Building
  • Bank of Florence
  • Florence Mill (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • St. Patrick's Catholic Church (Omaha, Nebraska)


[edit] Not-related to-do's in Omaha

  • Culture in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Czechs in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Irish in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Germans in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Greeks in Omaha, Nebraska including Greek Town
    • Italians in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Scandinavians in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Canadians in Omaha, Nebraska
    • African Americans in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Poles in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Sudanese in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Mexicans in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Latinos in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Native Americans in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Jews in Omaha, Nebraska
    • Slovaks in Omaha, Nebraska
  • Landmarks of Omaha, Nebraska
  • Landmarks of the Nebraska Territory
  • List of Communists in Omaha, Nebraska

[edit] Wishlist

What I am really looking for is information on the tunnels in the hillside along Florence Blvd. You know those woods? There's old tunnels up in those cliffs, which I heard were either for freed slaves back, back in the day, or moonshining in the 1920s. Either way, I can't find anything online!

[edit] Info dump

  • Chudacoff, H. (1973) "A New Look at Ethnic Neighborhoods: Residential Dispersion and the Concept of Visibility in a Medium-Sized City." Journal of American History, 60(1) 76-93. - Case study focuses on Omaha, Nebraska, between the years of 1880 and 1920, where closer examination of ethnic residential patterns have established that around the turn of the century, clustering of national groups did not exist in degrees as strong as assumptions about the American ghetto suggest.
  • Gjerset, K & Hektoen, L (n.d.) Becoming American, Becoming Suburban: Norwegians in the 1920s. Norwegian American Historical Archives. Volume 33: Page 3.
  • The five largest ancestry groups in Nebraska are German (38.6%), Irish (12.4%), English (9.6%), Swedish (4.9%), and Czech (4.9%). From Nebraska.
  • Nebraska has the largest Czech-American population (as a percentage of the total population) in the nation. From Nebraska.
  • German-Americans are the largest ancestry group in most of the state, particularly in the eastern counties. From Nebraska.
  • Thurston County (comprised entirely of the Omaha and Winnebago reservations) has a Native American majority
  • Butler County is one of only two counties in the nation with a Czech-American plurality. From Nebraska.
  • Luebke, Frederick C. Immigrants and Politics: The Germans of Nebraska, 1880-1900 (1969)
  • Luebke, Frederick C. "The German-American Alliance in Nebraska, 1910-1917." Nebraska History 49 (1969): 165-85.
  • Rives, H. (n.d.) We Possessed Together the Communicable Past: Articulating the Connections among Cather, Omaha, Rural Nebraska, and my Family History Cather Archive - UNL.</ref>
  • Italian sisters of Poor Clare (POOR LADIES, SISTERS OF ST. CLARE) found a permanent home in Omaha, thanks to the munificence of Mr. John Creighton. On 14 July, 1882, the canonical enclosure was established in the new monastery. From the monastery of St. Clare in Omaha have sprung directly, or indirectly, the foundations of the order at New Orleans; Evansville, Ind.; Boston; and Bordentown, N. J. See http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12251b.htm [1]
  • Omaha Tribune was a German-language newspaper
  • Tom Dennison was a crime boss in Omaha in the early 1900s who has working relationships with Al Capone in Chicago and Tom Pendergast of Kansas City.[2]
  • Dennison also formed the Omaha Liquor Syndicate, an organization designed to monopolize the illegal liquor trade in the city.[3]
  • Beerman, B.J. (2004) Where the hell is Omaha? AmericanMafia.Com - Article tells the story of Omaha's organized crime scene, including roles for various ethnic groups.
  • Citro, J. (n.d.) The Italians of Nebraska. - Includes photos of important Italian landmarks in Omaha.
  • Czechs in Nebraska - An introduction.
  • IrishOmaha.com
  • In 1920 there were 682 Mexicans in Omaha; in 1923 there were about 1,000. They lived in South Omaha, close to the three packing plants of that time. [4]
  • T. Earl Sullenger, "The Mexican Population of Omaha," Journal of Applied Sociology, VIII (May-June, 1924): 289.
  • Lopez, D. (2000) An Examination of Socioeconomic Measures for Latinos in South Omaha. Julian Samora Research Institute.
  • El Museuo Latino in Omaha.
  • Czechs in Professional, Artistic, Banking and Other Careers
  • Roman Hruska - US Senator from Omaha, proud Czech
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  1. ^ O'Hara, E. (1911) The Catholic Encyclopedia, XII. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ Beerman, B.J. (2004) Where the hell is Omaha? AmericanMafia.Com
  3. ^ Beerman, B.J. (2004) Where the hell is Omaha? AmericanMafia.Com
  4. ^ Grajeda, R. (n.d.) Mexicans in Nebraska Nebraska State Historical Society.
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