Originally published to facebook.com/NorthPlattePL on September 9, 2022. Welcome back to another Facebook Friday History! Welcome back to our Facebook Friday history! Today’s post looks back at a Nebraskan WWI veteran who became a prominent doctor and surgeon in our community. John Shaffer Simms was born on November 24, 1883 in Alma, Nebraska to B. […]
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Originally published to facebook.com/NorthPlattePL on August 19, 2022. Today’s North Platte History looks back at a turn of the century doctor, Dr. Josiah B. Redfield. Dr. Josiah B. Redfield’s family history gave researchers quite a run, so stick with us as we unfold his story. Read on! Josiah Beckley Redfield was born in Omaha, Nebraska […]
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downtown North Platte, Nebraska, the King Fong Café! You may know it or remember it as “Salon Nicholas” or “Stephanie’s” or perhaps even the King Fong Café!
Read the rest of this entry »A Brown Family Legacy
Originally published to Facebook on September 24, 2021 When Albert Neir Brown passed away on August 14, 2011, it was the end of a family legacy of military service to our nation. The story starts with the birth of his grandfather William Thomas Brown. He was born in Zanesville, Muskingham County, Ohio on Feb. 6, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Walter A. Stevens and His Lost Medal
Originally published to facebook.com/NorthPlattePL on August 13, 2021. If you liked the “History Detectives” television program that aired on PBS a few years ago, then you will really enjoy today’s North Platte History! Read on… Several years ago, a medal was uncovered from a residential yard here in North Platte. The man who uncovered it, […]
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