This is the National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for Robidoux Pass in Gehring, Nebraska. It also includes the Robidoux’s Second Fur Trading Post.
National Register of Historic Places: Robidoux Pass
Nebraska
Most archaeology in Nebraska is conducted or sponsored by universities and various state and federal agencies including: the National Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Federal Highway Administration, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the Nebraska Department of Roads, and History Nebraska (formerly the Nebraska State Historical Society). The Nebraska Archaeological Society is our state’s amateur archaeology organization. There have been thousands of archaeological sites discovered in the state of Nebraska and many dozens of these have been the subject of some level of detail excavation. Remarkably, this is the result of covering less than 10 percent of the land in Nebraska looking for sites. There are many more undiscovered archaeological sites in Nebraska and many unanswered questions about our past inhabitants.
Archaeology of the Bisterfeldt Potato Cellar Site
Details of an archaeological investigation done on the excavation site known as the Bisterfeldt Potato Cellar Site.
Oregon Trail site near the Rock Creek Ranch, Jefferson County, Nebraska
Image of Rock Creek Ranch Wagon Swales.
Image of Pioneer Grave at Ash Hollow Cemetery on the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Oregon National Historic Trails
Image of the monument for a pioneer grave at Ash Hollow Cemetery.
Aerial View of Ash Hollow, NE
This is an aerial view of Ash Hollow taken by the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: Fort Kearney
The nominated district is located about a half mile south of the Platte River and encloses an area of about 80 acres – – or only a small fraction of the TOO square mile Fort Kearny Military Reservation as established Read More …
Images of Fort Kearney and an Excavation at Fort Kearney
Four images of Fort Kearny including one archaeological excavation and the NRHP Property Photography Forms
Prehistoric and Historic Cultural Resources of Selected Sites at Harlan County Lake, Harlan County, Nebraska: Test Excavations and Determination of Significance for 28 Sites
The following report summarizes the archaeological testing of 28 sites for National Register eligibility in Harlan County Lake, Harlan County, Nebraska. Cultural affiliations of the tested sites included a possible Paleo Indian component, Keith variant, Plains Woodland, upper Republican, protohistoric Read More …
Prefederal Upper Republican Site Archaeology at Medicine Creek
The story is told of the anthropologist, studying origin traditions, whose informant stated that the world stands on the back of a giant turtle. He asked what the turtle stood on and learned that it stands on the back of Read More …
Medicine Creek Is a Paleoindian Cultural Ecotone: The Red Smoke Assemblage
The southwestern Nebraska Paleoindian Red Smoke site (25FT42) is in the upper reaches of a gallery-forested river that flows east to the Mississippi, in a sheltered, well-watered niche abundant in deer, small game, vegetable foods, and local high-quality tabular stone Read More …