The Gibson yards of the Burlington Northern Railroad are also located at this bend in the river on the bottoms.
Located exactly ten miles above the Platte River, it was in this spot that explorers Lewis and Clark placed mounds on their maps and mentioned them in their journals.
Clark drew these on his map with x's and triangles suggesting the area was the site of an ancient village of the Otoes and some of the crew swam the horses over and examined them for a day.
[3] Between 1895 and 1920, several Mexican families established themselves in colonias[4] next to the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad depot south of Little Italy and Little Bohemia.
[6] According to local historian Orville D. Menard, it was in this neighborhood that notorious Omaha crime lord Tom Dennison was responsible for seeding the riots that led to the 1919 lynching of Will Brown.