Walnut Hill is a historic neighborhood located in

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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 ...

. It is bounded by North 40th Street on the east, Cuming Street on the south, Northwest Radial Highway and Saddle Creek Road on the west and Hamilton Street on the north.

History

Dr. Samuel Mercer constructed a large, private residence at 40th and Cuming Streets and platted the Walnut Hill subdivision northwest of his home in the 1880s. Previously, Mercer financed the construction of cable-line

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s in Omaha, and by the end of the 1880s, his line extended as far west as North 36th and Cuming Streets. Walnut Hill Elementary School was first constructed in 1888, rebuilt in 1927 and again in 1994. It is one of Omaha's oldest schools. The neighborhood suffered minor damage in the catastrophic Easter Sunday Tornado of 1913. After the

Trans-Mississippi Exposition The Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition was a world's fair held in Omaha, Nebraska from June 1 to November 1 of 1898. Its goal was to showcase the development of the entire West, stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Co ...

of 1898 many of the large

s employed to carry throngs of passengers were removed from service by the

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. In the face of increasingly uncomfortable crowding on the small cars, a large demonstration by a group of residents from the Walnut Hill suburb during which they took over several streetcars in the city to protest the poor condition of

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in their neighborhood."Against crowding cars: Members of an Omaha Association Take a Firm Stand"
''The New York Times.'' November 19, 1898. Retrieved 4/21/08.

Notable historic properties

References

External links

"A History of the Walnut Hill Neighborhood"
by Adam Fletcher Sasse for NorthOmahaHistory.com {{Community areas of Omaha Neighborhoods in Omaha, Nebraska History of North Omaha, Nebraska Historic districts in Omaha, Nebraska

History

Notable historic properties

See also

References

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