LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - During a visit to rural Comstock, we got a chance to visit the Dowse Sod House, and it has plenty of history surrounding it. “This house was built on my great granddad’s ...
Most people think of sod houses as those lived in by pioneers. Their basic living quarters were made of dirt walls. To me, it didn’t sound like a very pleasant life. Susan Davis (Courtesy photo) I was ...
Ecologists in Nebraska are trying to find out what the Great Plains looked like when homesteaders settled there in the 19th century. To do that, they're working with a team of archaeologists and ...
EDINBURG, N.D. -- Stepping over the threshold of the Edinburg sod house is a trip back in time. Members of the community have furnished the sod house with late 19th and early 20th century replicas and ...
Today, we think of them as the settler's last ditch alternative to wood and brick structures, but 140 or 150 years ago that was not necessarily the case. Of, course wood was scarce and brick factories ...
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