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The museum was primarily founded by Otis Mason. Mason was an Excelsion High School alumnus who, in 1984, became the first Black superintendent of the St. Johns County School District. It opened as the Excelsior Museum and Cultural Center in 2005, [2] and changed its name to the Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center in 2012. In 2017, the ...
The museum was created as a result of the restructuring of the Minnesota Transportation Museum (MTM) during the winter of 2004–2005. The MTM was founded in 1962 to restore a streetcar, Twin City Rapid Transit Company No. 1300, that had been operated by the TCRT until the last streetcar lines were abandoned in favor of buses in 1954.
Improved Christie. Operational. range. 99 mi (160 km) Maximum speed. 24 mph (39 km/h) off-road: 12 mph (19 km/h) The Tank, Heavy Assault, A33 (Excelsior) was a British experimental heavy tank based on the Cromwell (A27) design developed in the Second World War. It was developed when there were concerns as to performance of the Churchill tank.
Excelsior (/ ɛ k ˈ s ɛ l s i ər / ek-SEL-see-ər) is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. Excelsior's historic commercial district along Water Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places , and the town has many Victorian -era houses. [ 4 ]
1912 Excelsior motorcycle on display at the California Automobile Museum 1914 Excelsior 1918 Henderson built by Excelsior. Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company was an American motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931. [1] It was purchased by Ignaz Schwinn, proprietor of bicycle manufacturer Arnold, Schwinn & Co ...
Excelsior Springs is a city in Clay and Ray counties in the U.S. state of Missouri and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The population was 10,553 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) northeast of central Kansas City, Missouri .
Minnehaha. (steamboat) / 44.90306°N 93.57444°W / 44.90306; -93.57444. Minnehaha is a steam-powered excursion vessel on Lake Minnetonka in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The vessel was originally in service between 1906 and 1926. After being scuttled in 1926, Minnehaha was raised from the bottom of Lake Minnetonka in 1980, restored, and ...
Project Excelsior was a series of parachute jumps made by Joseph Kittinger of the United States Air Force in 1959 and 1960 from helium balloons in the stratosphere. The purpose was to test the Beaupre multi-stage parachute system intended to be used by pilots ejecting from high altitude. In one of these jumps Kittinger set world records for the ...