Kansas, Douglas County, Lawrence
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Haskell’s destiny in becoming a four-year university for native students has a history to be preserved and shared.
In 1890, Haskell Institute became the official name. Several years passed before classes were offered beyond the elementary grades. Most Indian students didn’t have access to a high school education in their communities.
In 1895, the commercial department (early business school) opened its’ first class with five typewriters. By 1927, the high school classes were accredited by the State of Kansas.
In the early 1930’s, Haskell Institute, began offering post high-school courses. Vocational-technical trades were an important part of the curriculum with learned trades in printing, nursing, business, office workers, painters, mechanics, electricians, carpentry and masonry.
In the 1930’s, Haskell football teams were legendary. Haskell’s Coffin Sports Complex is the home of the American Indian Hall of Fame, showcasing the trophies and pictures of our past and current great Indian athletes.
In 1933, Haskell Institute got its first Native Superintendent, Dr. Henry Roe Cloud. He was the first native person to graduate from Yale University. During his time at Haskell, Dr. Roe Cloud, reversed the assimilation-style emphasis on the curriculum. He changed the curriculum to emphasize Native culture.
By the 1930’s, students who came to Haskell loved the school and stayed on as staff and faculty.
In 1961, Haskell Institute was officially registered as a historical landmark because of Haskell’s outstanding contribution to Indian Education. The Registered National Historical Landmark plaque is located in the entrance of Stidham Union.
In 1965, the last high school class graduated.
In 1970, Haskell Institute becomes Haskell Indian Junior College.
A vision and planning of Haskell as a national center for Indian Education, research and cultural preservation was emerging
In 1993, Haskell Indian Nations University obtained its new name and received accreditation to offer its first four-year baccalaureate degree program in Elementary Teacher Education. Today, Haskell has an average enrollment of 900 plus students with tribal affiliations from across the country, including Alaska. Haskell offers baccalaureate degree programs in Elementary Education, American Indian Studies, Business Administration, Environmental Science and several two-year degree programs. Some of the current students had family members who attended Haskell Institute. Haskell has become a family tradition for education, tribal-cultural sharing and learning. Information about Haskell’s 4-year and 2-year degree programs, admission requirements and current events, etc. can be found on Haskell’s website at www.haskell.edu
Haskell Firsts:
Haskell football field had the first electrically lighted football field in the Midwest. KU often borrowed the lights for their night games.
In 1896, Haskell Institute was the first Kansas school to teach the modern touch-type method of typing. The instructor, Clarence Birch, wrote a book on this technique.
In 1897, the first edition of the school paper, Indian Leader was published. This is the oldest Native American school paper in the country. Current copies of the Indian Leader can be found in the library – Tommaney Hall.
In 1921, the first all-Indian National Guard unit, Company D (machine gun), 137th Infantry Regiment, was formed at Haskell Institute. The company was comprised of 65 Haskell Institute students from 20 tribes. The company was disbanded in 1934.
In 1926, Haskell Institute hosted, what many consider, the first inter-tribal pow-wow for the dedication of the new Stadium and Arch. It was, also, Haskell Institute’s first homecoming football game. Haskell defeated Bucknell University (Louisburg [sic – Lewisburg], PA) 36-0.
(Education • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Haskell’s destiny in becoming a four-year university for native students has a history to be preserved and shared.
In 1890, Haskell Institute became the official name. Several years passed before classes were offered beyond the elementary grades. Most Indian students didn’t have access to a high school education in their communities.
In 1895, the commercial department (early business school) opened its’ first class with five typewriters. By 1927, the high school classes were accredited by the State of Kansas.
In the early 1930’s, Haskell Institute, began offering post high-school courses. Vocational-technical trades were an important part of the curriculum with learned trades in printing, nursing, business, office workers, painters, mechanics, electricians, carpentry and masonry.
In the 1930’s, Haskell football teams were legendary. Haskell’s Coffin Sports Complex is the home of the American Indian Hall of Fame, showcasing the trophies and pictures of our past and current great Indian athletes.
In 1933, Haskell Institute got its first Native Superintendent, Dr. Henry Roe Cloud. He was the first native person to graduate from Yale University. During his time at Haskell, Dr. Roe Cloud, reversed the assimilation-style emphasis on the curriculum. He changed the curriculum to emphasize Native culture.
By the 1930’s, students who came to Haskell loved the school and stayed on as staff and faculty.
In 1961, Haskell Institute was officially registered as a historical landmark because of Haskell’s outstanding contribution to Indian Education. The Registered National Historical Landmark plaque is located in the entrance of Stidham Union.
In 1965, the last high school class graduated.
In 1970, Haskell Institute becomes Haskell Indian Junior College.
A vision and planning of Haskell as a national center for Indian Education, research and cultural preservation was emerging
In 1993, Haskell Indian Nations University obtained its new name and received accreditation to offer its first four-year baccalaureate degree program in Elementary Teacher Education. Today, Haskell has an average enrollment of 900 plus students with tribal affiliations from across the country, including Alaska. Haskell offers baccalaureate degree programs in Elementary Education, American Indian Studies, Business Administration, Environmental Science and several two-year degree programs. Some of the current students had family members who attended Haskell Institute. Haskell has become a family tradition for education, tribal-cultural sharing and learning. Information about Haskell’s 4-year and 2-year degree programs, admission requirements and current events, etc. can be found on Haskell’s website at www.haskell.edu
Haskell Firsts:
Haskell football field had the first electrically lighted football field in the Midwest. KU often borrowed the lights for their night games.
In 1896, Haskell Institute was the first Kansas school to teach the modern touch-type method of typing. The instructor, Clarence Birch, wrote a book on this technique.
In 1897, the first edition of the school paper, Indian Leader was published. This is the oldest Native American school paper in the country. Current copies of the Indian Leader can be found in the library – Tommaney Hall.
In 1921, the first all-Indian National Guard unit, Company D (machine gun), 137th Infantry Regiment, was formed at Haskell Institute. The company was comprised of 65 Haskell Institute students from 20 tribes. The company was disbanded in 1934.
In 1926, Haskell Institute hosted, what many consider, the first inter-tribal pow-wow for the dedication of the new Stadium and Arch. It was, also, Haskell Institute’s first homecoming football game. Haskell defeated Bucknell University (Louisburg [sic – Lewisburg], PA) 36-0.
(Education • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Blockhouse built here, 1789, by
Gen. Charles Scott for protection
of settlers against Indians who
had massacred and driven off
earlier families. Scott came
from Va., 1785. He was in the
French and Indian Wars. Organized
first company south of James River
in the Revolution. Indian fighter,
in Battle of Fallen Timbers, 1794.
Governor of Kentucky, 1808- 12.
On 11 June 1982, six Airmen perished while performing missile convoy duty. 
During the Civil War, about two hundred members of St. John’s Lutheran Church served in at least eight Confederate army units. The units included companies in the 8th, 20th, 33rd, 52nd, and 57th North Carolina Infantry regiments, as well as a company in the 1st North Carolina Cavalry. Church members were engaged in at least 194 different skirmishes, battles, and campaigns. These included Manassas, Mechanicsville, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Winchester, Petersburg, and Appomattox Court House, Virginia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Charleston, South Carolina; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Antietam, Maryland; and numerous battles in the eastern part of North Carolina. The 2nd Regiment Detailed Men, with members of the congregation, served as guards in the prisoner-of-war camp in Salisbury.
Located in western Denton County, Plainview Cemetery served as a burial ground for early settlers in the area. The Plainview community began around 1878 when the families of Gideon Kimbrough (1833-1923) and William Kimbrough (1824-1912) and their families arrived from Bellville, Tennessee. As the community grew, the need for a school was recognized and a one-room school building was erected. In 1894, a Baptist Sunday school began to meet in the building. The Plainview Baptist Church formed in 1896 and built a church on land donated by C.R. Moreman. In 1898, a plot of land adjoining the church was purchased from the estate of James B. Walker (1848-1898) to be used as a cemetery. Mr. Walker was the first burial in the cemetery. It became the only cemetery for the Plainview community.
Here rest the remains of 10,132 Officers and Soldiers who died in defense of the Union, 1861-1865.
Marker front:
The Solla-Carcaba Cigar Factory, completed in 1909, is the last remnant in St. Augustine of the cigar industry, whose local origins date to the 1830s. Political unrest drove many Cuban cigar makers to Florida after 1868. Their numbers in St. Augustine were enough by 1892 to attract a visit by revolutionary leader Jose Marti. One Cuban, P.F. Carcaba, born in Oviedo, Spain, brought his cigar-making business from Cincinnati to St. Augustine in 1893, selling pure Havana "Caballeros" in boxes featuring images of Henry Flagler's great hotels. After Carcaba's death in 1906, his son, W.H. Carcaba, partnered with his brother-in-law, Agustin Solla, to construct this building. Local architect Fred A. Henderich, a specialist in revival and Bungalow styles, melded Italianate and Mediterranean Revival elements in his design for the building. The Carcaba Company failed in 1917, its assets purchased by the Pamles-Arango Cigar Company, which itself collapsed in 1926 along with the Florida economy. The building then housed a number of businesses before its restoration in 1985. The oldest surviving major industrial building in the city, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
Many nationalities blended in America and Nebraska to create our great nation and state. Prominent among them were the Czechs.
This millstone is believed to be from the gristmill built by William Smith in 1871 on the Big Blue River south of Beaver Crossing. W. J. Thompson took over the mill in 1873, and it continued to operate until about 1917.
The original site of Beaver Crossing was located about three miles to the northwest. Here a trail from Nebraska City to Fort Kearny crossed Beaver Creek. John Leonard and Daniel Millspaugh were the first settlers in this area in 1862. Roland Reed established the first post office in January 1868.
