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NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — For eight decades, a musty underground tunnel called John Brown's Cave and the rough-hewn Mayhew Cabin have drawn tourists and school kids to this Missouri River town. The site's exhibits have focused on the story of slavery and the abolition movement, though there's been a long-running debate over whether the site was ever a stop for escaping slaves on the famed Underground Railroad or whether Brown, the famed abolitionist, ever visited it. But now, there's a bigger question facing the popular attraction — will it...
WALTHILL, Neb. (AP) — For decades, the mostly vacant structure with the leaky roof at the top of a steep hill was known mostly as "the old hospital" or simply the "old white building." Few people knew the amazing backstory — that it was once a hospital, founded by the nation's first Native American physician, a humble woman who braved harsh weather to minister to her tribe, as well as the white settlers, on northeast Nebraska's Omaha Indian Reservation, the Omaha World-Herald reported. Now, a new effort is underway to restore the thr...
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — For decades, only a small brick engraved with the number "1685" marked a grave in the far corner of a grassy field that sits on the outskirts of town. Over the decades, thick sod had overgrown the brick, obscuring the resting place of a patient who died at a place called the Hospital for the Incurably Insane. The grave, and its story, might have been forgotten if not for a pair of sleuthing genealogists from the Omaha area, the Omaha World-Herald reported. Lisa McLaughlin and Kristin Riggle were researching their family's...
