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The Lewis and Clark Expedition passed the mouth of the Platte River, just north of what is now Main Street Plattsmouth, on July 21, 1804. [6]Plattsmouth first appeared in 1854 as "the Barracks", a trading post established by Sam Martin, owner of the Platteville ferry in neighboring Mills County, Iowa, ferryman Wheatley Mickelwait, and Glenwood, Iowa attorney and politician Colonel Joseph ...
Cass County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 26,598. [ 1] Its county seat and largest city is Plattsmouth. [ 2] The county was formed in 1855, and was named for General Lewis Cass, an American military officer, politician, and statesman. [ 3][ 4][ 5]
The Plattsmouth Main Street Historic District, in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The listing included 45 contributing buildings on 11 acres (4.5 ha). It is in the area of Main St. bounded by Avenue A, S. and N. 3rd St., 1st Ave. and S. and N. 7th St. in ...
The unofficial town crier believes that baby No. 3 will be named Philip. Per Sky News, bookies’ four favorite names are Arthur, James, Albert and Philip.
92000755 [ 1] Added to NRHP. April 15, 1993. Location. The Plattsmouth Bridge is a truss bridge over the Missouri River connecting Cass County, Nebraska, and Mills County, Iowa at Plattsmouth, Nebraska. Until 2014, it carried U.S. Highway 34 across the river. The bridge has seven spans, including the 402-foot (123 m) cantilevered through truss ...
Oyez! Town crier takes on social media. Jonathan Barnes - BBC News, Suffolk. August 12, 2024 at 1:38 AM. Town criers may date back to medieval times but one community is bringing back the role to ...
Prior to widespread literacy, town criers were the means of communication with the people of the town since many people could not read or write. Proclamations, local bylaws, market days, adverts, were all proclaimed by a bellman or crier. In ancient Rome, they typically proclaimed public business during the market days that formed a kind of ...
Map of the United States with Nebraska highlighted. Nebraska is a state located in the Midwestern United States.According to the 2020 census, Nebraska was the 37th most populous state with 1,961,504 inhabitants [1] and the 15th largest by land area spanning 76,824.17 square miles (198,973.7 km 2) of land.