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placed mounds on their maps and mentioned them in their journals. Noting a few dozen "Indian Mounds" in the area, they suggested the mounds covered a location of approximately two hundred acres. Clark drew these on his map with x's and triangles suggesting the area was the site of an ancient village
248:(2005) "South Omaha Veterans Memorial Bridge, Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa: Final Environmental Impact Statement." US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Nebraska Department of Roads, Iowa Department of Transportation. p. 3.65.
257:(2005) "South Omaha Veterans Memorial Bridge, Omaha, Nebraska and Council Bluffs, Iowa: Final Environmental Impact Statement." US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Nebraska Department of Roads, Iowa Department of Transportation. p. 67.
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in the 1930s. By the time that bridge was demolished in 2010 after being replaced, all remnants of the Gibson neighborhood were gone. According to local historian
Orville D. Menard, it was in this neighborhood that notorious Omaha crime lord
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Gibson was a historic neighborhood bordered on the east by the river and the west by
Riverview Boulevard, on the north by Bancroft Street and the south by Grover Street. It was south of the
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are also located at this bend in the river on the bottoms. In 1952 the flood was contained by the dike built there from soil taken out of the hills behind
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conducted an archeological survey of the Gibson area. Working in conjunction with the
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Political bossism in mid-America: Tom
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abuts the former Gibson neighborhood to the southwest.
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was responsible for seeding the riots that led to the
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751:Train Town
731:Gophertown
726:Greek Town
615:Bridlewood
610:Bent Creek
582:Sheelytown
552:Dog Hollow
509:Raven Oaks
489:Minne Lusa
474:Gold Coast
459:East Omaha
444:Bemis Park
406:Field Club
363:Old Market
225:References
93:roundhouse
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716:Chinatown
645:Irvington
547:Deer Park
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79:Location
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