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Once a safe place for Black travelers during Jim Crow, North Omaha ‘castle’ earns national recognition

Wesley Dacus doesn’t mind the attention his North Omaha home garners — the people stopping to take photos, the notes left on his door, the passersby wondering if he has a room to rent. Dacus welcomes the opportunity to talk about the historic house. “Every time people come by, they just kind of marvel at […]