History of Kingman as per the Route 66 Museum

The Kingman area was part of a series of Native American Trails which facilitated travel and trade.  

The Beale Trail ran through the Kingman area as a route traveling east to west to California.  The city of Kingman came into existence after Lewis Kingman, working for the railroad, established a station in Kingman.  

With the coming of the railroad came a train station and a Harvey Restaurant with Harvey Girls.

Route 66 was established in 1926.  The route extended from Chicago to Los Angeles.  It was important in the transoort of thousands during the depression who fled land devastated by dust storms.  

 Charles Lindbergh about this time came to Kingman, establishing a string of airports across the United States.  This was part of Trans World Airlines as well as setting up mail service.  

How Kingman may have looked at this time.

During WWII Kingman and the Army Air Field were central to the war effort.

A tragic even in the 1970s was a fire in Kingman which killed twelve people.

More recently another fire took lives in Arizona.

Book Review: Images of America: Omaha's Historic Houses of Worship

 Images of America: Omaha's Historic Houses of Worship by Eileen Wirth PhD and Carole McCabe, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, South Carolina, 2014.

If you wanted to explore churches in Omaha, past and present, this is a very good reference book.  Church history very much mirrors ethnic history.  Omaha has a history of many different ethnic groups. and often each ethnic group had their own church.  Catholic churches are often divided this way.  

This book starts with the presence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Omaha area, Winter Quarters before Omaha was even a city.  They established the first European city in Winter Quarters,  The built a communal mill, and many passed away due to illness, cold and poor diet.  

The book then moves on to talk about the coming of Omaha ten years later further south along the Missouri.  Omaha had a very roudy history, but religion and churches helped to stabilize the population.

As I noted, many pictures of churches in Omaha.  It includes new churches and new religions as well as old.  

The Green Book: As per the Great Plains Black History Museum

 There were areas of Omaha where Blacks were not welcome.  The Green Book gave information about where they were welcome.  Written by Victor Hugo Green it informed where blacks could find a hotel or oter amenities throughout the country.

Cold Springs Historical Marker at 60th and L in Omaha.

Cold Spring was an early stopping place for immigrants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the summer of 1846.  There is a historical marker at the corner of 60th an L proclaiming it as this spot.  The marker is by the Satellite Hotel.  Another spot where the immigrants stopped that summer was Mormon Hollow in Fontenelle Forrest in Bellevue.   My understanding they moved to a place close to the Papillion Creek.  Little Papillion Creek four block west of this marker.  It flows in Big Papillion Creek about four blocks south.  Neither Mormon Hollow or Cold Springs seemed adequate so most immigrants went north to Winter Quarters.

Potter's Field and the Final Resting Spot of Will Brown.

Potter's Field was purchased by the City of Omaha in 1887 and it served as the final resting spot for many.  As of 1957 the city paid for burial plots in local cemeteries.  Will Brown, who was lynched in 1919 is buried here.   Over half buried here were infants with over 3000 total in the 70 years buried.

This memorial lists all those buried here.

Will Brown gravesite is to the south of the flag pole on the hlll.

Book Review: Spotlight on Native Americans: Ojibwe

 Spotlight on Native Americans: Ojibwe by Torren Ramsey, PowerKids Press, Rosen Publishing Group Inc., New York, 2016.

The Ojibwe people are on of the more numerous Native American tribes. They extended from the Northern Great Plains in Canada to the southeastern Great Lakes in the United States.  Also known as Chipewa.  Their original name meaning the people, Anishinaabeg.

Initial contact with Europeans was with French Trappers.  Through treaty more and more of their land was taken for use by White populations.  Thee treaties guaranteed the right of the Ojibwe to hunt on their native lands.  This right eroded but over time courts have restored this right.  

The Ojibwe would move with the seasons.  They would hunt and fish during the summer, and harvest maple for syrup in the spring.  Winter was a time of preparing furs for trading.  Women would garden, squash, corn and beans as well as gather.  

Louise Erdrich is Ojibwe.  She writes books.  Rebecca Belmore is a visual artist.  Ron Noganosh is a painter

Presidents of the Unitd States of America from Gerald R. Ford Birth Site