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| Looking in the window of the Palmer-Epard
cabin at the Homestead National Monument. The monument is
on the site of the very first land that was homesteaded
under the Homestead Act passed in 1862. The cabin is an
original homesteaders cabin from a neigboring property and
was moved to the National Monument. |
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Flag |
Seal |
 Website : www.nebraska.gov |
 Capital
: Lincoln |
 Highest
point : Panorama
point, 5,424 feet |
 Area : 77,358 square miles,
16th largest state. |
 Population : 1,711,263
(2000 Census) |
 Motto
: Equality before the
law
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 Admitted to
Union : March 1, 1867 |
 State
Song : "Beautiful Nebraska" |
 State Bird : Western Medowlark |
 State Flower : Goldenrod |
 State Tree : Cottonwood |
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