South 24th Street in Omaha, Nebraska – WHY THIS PLACE?

This nationally registered historic commercial district has been a center for national, state, and local events. Come to see us to witness and/ or learn about:

• a national center of stockyards and meatpacking
• a destination of European immigrants, southern African-Americans, and Chicanos of the past and Middle American immigrants today
• murals, colors, design, folk art, pottery
• entrepreneurs and small businesses of the past and present
• vernacular commercial architecture of the late 1800s and early 1900s
• cultural elements – religion, language, food preparation, street marketing