Normal, Nebraska was an unincorporated townsite southeast of Lincoln, named for Lincoln Normal University, which had a campus at 56th and South Streets. Lincoln Normal area school operated only from 1891 until it was destroyed by fire in 1898. The area was annexed to Lincoln in 1919. When Normal was annexed, Lincoln acquired the area school and operated it as part of the Lincoln Public Schools system until 1936 when it was closed and tom down. The site is now part of the grounds of Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital.
