Union Pacific Museum to feature Louisiana Purchase Proclamation as new exhibit opens

Union Pacific Museum to feature Louisiana Purchase Proclamation as new exhibit opens

The Union Pacific Museum will feature the Louisiana Purchase Proclamation on loan through the end of July. It's part of the partial opening of a new exhibit and coincides with Railroad Days in Council Bluffs this weekend.

UP Museum in Council Bluffs to unveil new 'Nation Before the Railroad' exhibit

The reason Council Bluffs and Omaha are part of the United States today is because of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. This was the land deal that President Thomas Jefferson made with Napoleon Bonaparte of France to purchase over 800,000 sq. mi. of territory from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, including Nebraska and Iowa.Now, you can relive the history of the largest land deal in US history at the Union Pacific Museum as part of th…