For this week’s #ThrowbackThursday we’re going back 130 years!
This black and white print features Fremont’s 1889 High School building. This $23,000 building was constructed in 1889 and located on Eighth Street between Main and D Streets.
This image is owned by the Dodge County Historical Society and is part of the Keene Memorial Library collection on the Nebraska Memories archive. Keene Memorial Library and the Dodge County Historical Society, both located in Fremont, Nebraska, worked as partners to digitize and describe content owned by the historical society. The collection of photographs documents life in Fremont in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Interested in Nebraska history? Check out all the collections featured on the Nebraska Memories archive!
Nebraska Memories is a cooperative project to digitize Nebraska-related historical and cultural heritage materials and make them available to researchers of all ages via the Internet. The Nebraska Memories archive is brought to you by the Nebraska Library Commission. If your institution is interested in participating in Nebraska Memories, see http://nlc.nebraska.gov/nebraskamemories/participation.aspx for more information.
