Lincoln

The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second most populous city in Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska.

[edit] History

Lincoln started out as the village of Lancaster, which was founded in 1856, and became the county seat of the newly-created Lancaster County in 1859. The capital of Nebraska Territory had been Omaha since the creation of the territory in 1854; however, most of the territory's population lived south of the Platte River. After much of the territory south of the Platte considered annexation to Kansas, the legislature voted to move the capital south of the river and as far west as possible. The village of Lancaster was chosen, in part due to the salt flats and marshes nearby.

However, Omaha interests attempted to derail the move by having Lancaster renamed after the recently-assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. At the time, many of the people south of the river had been sympathetic towards the Confederate cause and it was assumed that the legislature would not pass the measure if the future capital was named after Lincoln. The ploy did not work, as Lancaster was renamed Lincoln and became the state capital upon Nebraska's admission to the Union on March 1, 1867.

[edit] Metropolitan area

The Lincoln metropolitan area consists of Lancaster County and Seward County, which was added to the metropolitan area in 2003. Lincoln has very little development outside its city limits and has no contiguous suburbs. This is due primarily to the fact that most land that would have developed as a suburban city has been annexed to the city of Lincoln itself.

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[edit] Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 225,581 people, 90,485 households, and 53,567 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,022.2/sq mi. There were 485 households, out of which 29.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.3% were married couples living together, 9.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.8% were non-families. 30.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.36 and the average family size was 2.99.

Lincoln is one of the few cities without its own NBC affiliate; Omaha's WOWT serves as the city's default NBC affiliate, while Hastings' KHAS-TV is available in satellite locals packages. Most of Omaha's other television stations can also be picked up in Lincoln with an antenna, and all are available on cable.

The Lincoln Journal Star is the city's major daily newspaper and the Daily Nebraskan is the official campus paper of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

[edit] Trivia

• Lincoln's nickname is the "Star City" (from the use of a star to mark state capitals on road maps); a logo formerly used by the city's convention and visitors bureau consists of a star composed of 5 Ls. A brick-patterned star was laid at the main Downtown intersection in the early 1980s when the city officially adopted the "Star City" nickname. The nickname has been used as a team name for the Lincoln Stars.
• The Lincoln Airport is among the emergency landing sites for the NASA Space Shuttle, and the top location located within the non-coastal United States.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website for the City of Lincoln
• Official website for the Lincoln Convention and Visitors Bureau

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