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[7] [8] In 1995, the museum was transferred from the United States Air Force Museum system to the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites system. [9] The museum obtained two "new-in-box" Quonset huts for additional display space in 1997. [10] Then, in 2010, the museum was dropped from the latter system. [11]
Other notable works include many portrait busts and bronze plaques of Indiana governors and notable citizens. There is a 21 x 41.5 foot mural depicting the Spirit of Indiana on the east wall of the Indiana House of Representatives and a figural representation of state of Indiana which was commissioned for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Grissom Air Reserve Base is a United States Air Force base, located about 12 miles (19 km) north of Kokomo in Cass and Miami counties in Indiana. The facility was established as a U.S. Navy installation, Naval Air Station Bunker Hill, in 1942 and was an active Air Force installation, Bunker Hill Air Force Base from 1954 to 1968, and Grissom Air Force Base from 1968 to 1994.
Beale AFB: 39th Intelligence Squadron: Hurlburt Field: Redesignated 39th Info Ops Sq 41st Intelligence Squadron: Fort Meade: Vikings: Activated 8 October 2014 42d Intelligence Squadron: Langley AFB: 43d Intelligence Squadron
The 434th Tactical Airlift Wing was inactivated on 31 December 1969, with the closure of Bakalar AFB, but it was later reactivated as the 434th Air Refueling Wing, and operates as the host wing at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana, flying the KC-135 Stratotanker. [18] The U.S. Department of Defense closed Bakalar AFB in January 1970.
The Haans bought the mansion in 1984 and started collecting Indiana art in 1992. The formation of the Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art was announced in September 2013 when it also opened for monthly public tours. Bob and Ellie Haan signed over the building to the Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art in July 2015. [1]
Historically, the state was a swing state, voting for the national winner all but four times from 1816 to 1912, with the exceptions of 1824, 1836, 1848, and 1876. [9] Nonetheless, half of Indiana's governors in the 20th century were Democrats. Indiana has also elected several Democrats to the Senate in recent years.
The original collection began in 1862 as a cabinet of curiosities collected by State Librarian R. Deloss Brown. [2] In 1869, the Indiana General Assembly enacted a law that provided “for the collection and preservation of a Geological and Mineralogical Cabinet of the Natural History of this State”. [3]