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The community has a long history of welcoming immigrants, including large populations of
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit ...
is bordered by South 42nd Street on the west, L Street on the south, Interstate 80 on the north and Dahlman Avenue on the east. Once incorporated in the City of South Omaha South Omaha is a former city and current district of Omaha, Nebraska, United States. During its initial development phase the town's nickname was "The Magic City" because of the seemingly overnight growth, due to the rapid development of the Union S ...
, the area has also been known as Golden Hill in the past."Old South Omaha Has Long History Of Welcoming: New Association Unites Old Neighborhood,"KETV. (from Archive.org) 5/12/06. Retrieved 8/20/07.
History
The community has a long history of welcoming immigrants, including large populations of Polish
Polish may refer to:
* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, w ...
, Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, oth ...
, Czechs
The Czechs ( cs, Češi, ; singular Czech, masculine: ''Čech'' , singular feminine: ''Češka'' ), or the Czech people (), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, ...
, and Mexicans. "The early part of the century, it was known that every block had its own store grocery store and a bar for the men of the area." The neighborhood is named after the Burlington Railroad tracks that border the eastern edge of the area.
See also
*History of Omaha
The history of Omaha, Nebraska, began before the settlement of the city, with speculators from neighboring Council Bluffs, Iowa staking land across the Missouri River illegally as early as the 1840s. When it was legal to claim land in Indian Co ...
* Neighborhoods of Omaha
References
History of South Omaha, Nebraska Historic districts in Omaha, Nebraska Neighborhoods in South Omaha, Nebraska {{DouglasCountyNE-geo-stub