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Oshkosh, Nebraska

The Oshkosh Swimming Pool provides free swimming in a heated pool. The pool has 3-meter and 1-meter diving boards, a wading pool for pre-school children and lifeguards on duty. The pool is open from 1-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. daily during the summer. A wide variety of swimming and lifesaving lessons are available also.

200 East 1st

The Oshkosh Ballpark is host to many baseball and softball programs throughout the summer, including PeeWee, Babe Ruth, Legion Baseball, Young Girls and Girls Softball. Lighted tennis courts are adjacent to the ballpark.

An outstanding July 4th celebration concludes with baseball and a fireworks display at the ballpark.

800 West 2nd

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Garden County Courthouse

Garden County Courthouse Listed in the National Register of Historical Places [GD03-003] Listed 1990/01/10 In an election held in 1909, Deuel County voters approved the creation of Garden County and the older county lost three-fourths of its territory. Oshkosh was established in 1889

Oshkosh, NE Historic Courthouses

Garden County Museum

An early 1900s school house and an old opera house/theater located downtown are filled with historic items, Indian artifacts, fossils, and a bird collection of 300 stuffed specimens. A second museum building at the south end of Main at E Avenue is a larger building for larger exhibits.

Oshkosh, NE Museums

Historic Rackett Grange Hall

Rackett Grange Hall 318 Listed in the National Register of Historical Places [GD04-002] Listed 2001/07/05 Constructed in 1926 the hall, located at the former town site of Rackett 25 miles north east of Oshkosh, is a one-story, false front commercial building. The Rackett Grange Hall #318

Oshkosh, NE Historic Buildings

History of Ash Hollow

Archaeological excavations in Ash Hollow indicate that early man used the area as much as 6,000 years ago. A small rock shelter in the side of the bluff near the park visitor center was used as a campsite by later Plains Indians for about 3,000

Oshkosh, NE

Ash Hollow Historical Park

Nebraska Game & Parks describes Ash Hollow as the state's "most intriguing and unusual"

Oshkosh, NE Historic Parks

Things to do near Oshkosh, NE

Five Rocks Amphitheater

Severin Sorensen House

B-24 Bomber Crash Memorial

Plains Historical Museum

Wildcat Hills Nature Center