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African-American Heritage Museum and Black Veterans Archives, Aurora, former sculpture park dedicated to the leaders of Black American history, closed in 2000. Relocated to Hammonds, LA. [72] [73] American Police Center & Museum, Chicago [74] Americana Hollywood Museum, Metropolis [75] ArtWorks Children's Museum, Ingleside
Rileys Farm, Oak Glen, 17th and 18th c. Living History, Revolutionary War, Civil War & Gold Rush [2] Stein Family Farm / National City Living History Farm Preserve, San Diego; Colorado. Littleton Museum – The Farms, Littleton; Old Town Museum, Burlington; Florida. Mission San Luis de Apalachee, Tallahassee; Morningside Nature Center, Gainesville
The second floor is exclusively bedrooms. The Tanner family (and their descendants) lived in the house until 1936, when two of the children donated it to the Aurora Historical Society. [1] On August 19, 1976, it was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. It now operates as a museum.
The Western Trails Museum at Knott's is now just south of the saloon in Ghost Town. [24] [25] [26] Center Room, Western Trails Museum, current building at Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California. Marion Speer died in Orange County in 1978, at the age of 93. [27] [28] Center Room, Western Trails Museum, Knott's Berry Farm, 2021.
[4] In 1995, the Aurora City Council voted to allow an investment group led by former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton to purchase the building. The building re-opened in 1996 and hosted a brewpub, restaurant, museum, and open-air pavilion. [2] Among the artifacts in the museum is Payton's championship ring from Super Bowl XX.
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The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad relocated its headquarters to Aurora in 1855. Expecting a rise in population due to the railroad's employment opportunities, Aurora platted a new residential section of land west of the Fox River. Aurora indeed expanded rapidly during that period, almost doubling in population from 1860 to 1874.
The museum was founded by Rod Kath, Larry Matt, Irvin Lewandowski, Jack Rodgers, Robert Knoll in 1990 after they met at The Landings Airport in Huntley, Illinois. It opened with 17 aircraft three years later at the DuPage Airport in West Chicago, Illinois and began fundraising for a purpose built facility across the airport.