The Washington County Historical Association, or WCHA, is located in the Washington County Historical Museum at 102 North 14th Street in
Fort Calhoun, Nebraska
Fort Calhoun is a city in Washington County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 908 at the 2010 census. The city includes Fort Atkinson, the first fort built west of the Missouri River.
History
Fort Calhoun was platted in 1855. It w ...
. The WCHA "promotes careful guardianship of historical artifacts, promotes an understanding of their significance and inspires people to turn things learned and appreciated into benchmarks for their lives."
Washington County Historical Museum
Julie Ashton is the executive director and Faith Norwood is the museum
curator
A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...
. The Washington County Historical Museum is the oldest county museum in Nebraska.
"Visit Nebraska’s Museums"
Luann Schindler. Retrieved May 29, 2011. The museum houses artifacts from throughout the area's history, including local Native American tribes and nearby Fort Atkinson. There are also items from early settlers, and genealogical information. Other properties owned by the WCHS include the Frahm House, located at 15th and Madison Streets in Fort Calhoun, and the Fontanelle Township Hall
The Fontanelle Township Hall is a historic one-story building in Fontanelle, Nebraska. It was built with bricks under the supervision of H.J. Carpenter in 1896. With Inside, there are polling booths, and "wooden tongue-in-groove wainscotting .. ...
in Fontanelle
A fontanelle (or fontanel) (colloquially, soft spot) is an anatomical feature of the infant human skull comprising soft membranous gaps ( sutures) between the cranial bones that make up the calvaria of a fetus or an infant. Fontanelles allow f ...
, which is in the western part of Washington County.
See also
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* 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 C ...
* History of Nebraska
The history of the U.S. state of Nebraska dates back to its formation as a territory by the Kansas–Nebraska Act, passed by the United States Congress on May 30, 1854. The Nebraska Territory was settled extensively under the Homestead Act of 18 ...
References
External links
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Biographies of early Washington County settlers
Blair Historic Preservation Alliance
website.
History of Omaha, Nebraska
Historical societies in Nebraska
Museums in Washington County, Nebraska
History museums in Nebraska
Native American museums in Nebraska
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