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Excellent Museum Of Geology: Rapid City is the seat of the South Dakot School of Mines and Technology (q.v.), whid has an excellent Museum of Geology. There ii an Indian Museum in one of the city parks. Eas of the city is Ellsworth Air Force Base, one 0! the major bases of the Strategic Air Command Local points of interest include Dinosaur Part and Story Book Island.
Founded in 1876 and incorporated in 1882. the city was named after Rapid Creek, which runs within a few blocks of the downtown business section. The mayor-aldermanic form of government was adopted in 1956. Pop. 42,339.The Field Museum, formerly the Chicago Natural History Museum, occupied its location in Grant Park since I1 Its exhibits embrace anthropology, geology, any, and zoology, and like the Art Institute, heavily engaged in research, publication, teaching. Near the Field Museum in Grant 1 are the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the A Planetarium and Astronomical Museum. Chicago Historical Society maintains a mus< in Lincoln Park concerned with Chicago his and the era of Abraham Lincoln.
The United States, excellent firearms col-may be viewed at the Springfield (Mass.) Museum; West Point (N. Y.) Museum; States National Museum (Smithsonian, angton, D. C.); Winchester Gun Museum, Haven, Conn.; Connecticut State Library Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.; J. )avis Collection, Claremore, Okla.; Metzger tion, College Station, Texas; Confederate , Richmond, Va.; Huntington (West Va.) ; Milwaukee Public Museum; Metropoli-[useum of Art, New York; and the Chicka-and Chattanooga Military Park, Fort ipe, Ga. |
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