1890s Memorial Day
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Event Details
Celebrate & honor those who have gone before us during this stirring event. Procession to cemetery, 11:00 am, Silver Cornet Band Concert & Program, 2 pm, Railroad Town Bandstand. 9am-4pm.
1890s Memorial Day
Phone : 308-385-5316 (Always call and confirm events.)
Email Address : info@stuhrmuseum.org
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Memorials
Attractions and Upcoming Events
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
This landmark English Gothic structure opened for worship on July 7, 1889. The church was constructed with red granite from Colorado and trimmed in gray sandstone from Wyoming. The stained glass windows were imported from Europe. In 1903
Grand Island, NE Historic ChurchesFort O.K. Cannon
The cannon located on the South lawn of the Courthouse is dated 1853 and with the forged stamp of AMES CO. FOUNDERS, CHICOPEE, MASS.
"This cannon was left at Fort O.K. August 22, 1865 by Major J.R. Curtis 'for the protection of the settlement against attack by Hostile Indians'."
Grand Island, NE Landmarks
Mrs. H.J. Bartenbach House
National Register of Historic Places
The house is a distinct and significant example of a Nebraska dwelling designed in the Moderne style of the 1930s, a style never widely popular in the state. The original house, a one-story Victorian dwelling constructed in 1893
Grand Island, NE NATIONAL REGISTERSoldiers Memorial
Located on the South lawn of the Courthouse the memorial reads, "IN MEMORY OF THE DEFENDERS OF OUR COUNTRY, 1861-1865 and the Spanish American War, 1898-1900"
Erected by the city of Grand Island, 1913
Grand Island, NE MemorialsTrinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Evangelische Lutherische Dreinenigkeit Kirche - National Register of Historic Places
Plans for the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church were adopted in 1890, but construction did not begin until 1894
Grand Island, NE Historic Churches