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Archived 2015-07-01 (Calendar) at the Wayback Machine. The Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, the largest aviation museum in Illinois, [citation needed] occupied part of the grounds of the decommissioned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. It and the base were named for Octave Chanute, railroad engineer and aviation pioneer.
Added to NRHP. July 14, 2006. Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training.
A post office was established in 1856 as Rantoul Station; the name was changed to Rantoul in May 1862. [4] In 1917, Rantoul was chosen by the United States Army to be the site of Chanute Field, [6] due to its proximity to the Illinois Central railroad and the War Department's ground school at the University of Illinois. In the 1930s, Chanute ...
Rantoul, IL. / 40.31194°N 88.15889°W / 40.31194; -88.15889. Rantoul station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Rantoul, Illinois, United States, on their Illini and Saluki service. It was originally built by the Illinois Central Railroad. The City of New Orleans also uses these tracks, but does not stop.
From 1853 [2] Hopuhopu was the site of a boys' mission school, which lost most of its pupils in 1862 [3] and, by 1863, was reported as in disrepair, [4] with the mission house burnt down in 1886. [5] With he construction of the Auckland to Te Awamutu leg of the North Island Main trunk Line in the 1870s, the land that Hopuhopu occupied was ...
Rantoul National Aviation Center covers an area of 1,192 acres (482 ha) and contains two asphalt paved runways: 9/27 measuring 5,001 by 75 ft (1,524 by 23 m) and 18/36 measuring 4,894 by 75 ft (1,492 by 23 m). For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2020, the airport had 20,000 aircraft operations, an average of 55 per day: all general aviation.
He founded Camp Marienfeld a Summer Camp for Boys and was its headmaster for 17 years, and was headmaster of the Marienfeld Open-Air School at Samarcand, North Carolina, 1914–16. Marienfeld; a pioneer among camps was established by Dr. Henderson in the summer of 1896 in Milford, Pennsylvania , and was moved to Chesham, New Hampshire in 1899 ...
Northbrook, Broad Run, and Camp Linden Roads 39°55′55″N 75°40′56″W / 39.931944°N 75.682222°W / 39.931944; -75.682222 ( Trimbleville Historic Pocopson and West Bradford Townships