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Flatwater Explains: Omaha was once known as ‘Omaha City.’ Why did it change?

Editor’s note: Flatwater Explains is an occasional series during which FFP reporters explain the people, places and things that make Nebraska what it is while answering questions that both longtime residents and first-time visitors might have. The Council Bluffs businessmen who founded a town across the Missouri River in 1854 employed a common frontier convention […]