Miller Park (Omaha, Nebraska)
The Miller Park neighborhood in
Saratoga neighborhood is on the south. Fort Omaha borders the neighborhood on the west. Miller Park is the namesake park in the neighborhood, as well as the Miller Park Elementary School. In 2017, the Miller Park/Minne Lusa area was ranked as having the 2nd highest rate of homicides and other violent crimes out of 81 Omaha neighborhoods.[1][2]
About
Miller Park is named for Dr.
founding father of the city of Omaha. He was the first physician in Omaha, and later in life, a major landowner throughout the city, including all of the area comprising the neighborhood today.[3]
Miller was also the first president of the City of Omaha Board of Park Commissioners.
Once considered a possible location for the
Kountze Park to the south because of its distance from the city, the Miller Park neighborhood rebounded, quickly developing with upper-middle-class homes surrounding the perimeter of the park.[6]
Omaha State Senator Lowen Kruse is a past president of the Miller Park-Minne Lusa Neighborhood Association.[7]
Omaha's Prettiest Mile Boulevard
to the park the following year, which later became known as Florence Boulevard.
Fort Omaha
The Miller Park neighborhood is home to the
Fort Omaha Historic District. Inside the Fort there are dozens of historical buildings, with the Guard House designated by the City of Omaha as an Omaha Landmark, and the General Crook House listed independently on the National Register of Historic Places
.
See also
- Miller Park (North Omaha)
- Miller Park Elementary School
- Pearl Memorial United Methodist Church
- Neighborhoods of North Omaha, Nebraska
- History of Omaha
- Architecture of North Omaha, Nebraska
External links
- "A History of the Miller Park Neighborhood" by Adam Fletcher Sasse for NorthOmahaHistory.com
- Miller Park/Minne Lusa Neighborhood Association website.
- Historic photo of Miller Park.
- Miller Park Pavilion
- Photo of Miller Park Leisure Pool
- Historic postcard of the local Pearl Memorial United Methodist Church
References
- ^ "Crime in the Miller Park neighborhood - Omaha Crime Report". omahacrimereport.com. Archived from the original on 2014-02-14. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ "Homicide in Omaha - Omaha Crime Report". omahacrimereport.com. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
- ^ Larsen and Cotrell. (1997) The Gate City: A history of Omaha. University of Nebraska Press. p 72.
- ^ (nd) Locating the Exposition Archived 2006-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 5/29/07.
- ^ (n.d.) Historic Omaha
- ^ Wakeley, Arthur. (1917) Omaha: The Gate City and Douglas County Nebraska. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, p. 161.
- ^ (nd) Lowen Kruse Archived 2007-08-07 at the Wayback Machine website. Retrieved 6/11/07.