Old Freighters Museum

A Nebraska City museum set in the former office of a 19th-century freight company, covering freighting and the westward trails.

Nebraska City, NE

About Old Freighters Museum

The museum occupies the former headquarters of the Russell, Majors, and Waddell freighting firm. Its exhibits explain how shipping and freighting shaped Nebraska City's growth, and they also trace the travel routes used by pioneers and traders heading west. Galleries profile the company's leaders, the wagon crews who worked its trains, and the journeys they made, with records of employees from Nebraska City. Rare objects include an 1860 freighters' Bible signed by Alexander Majors.

#freighting history
#Oregon Trail
#California Trail
#Mormon Trail
#Nebraska City

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