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Helena is the state capital of the U.S. state of Montana and the county seat of Lewis and Clark County. Helena was founded as a gold camp during the Montana gold rush, and was established in 1864. Over $3.6 billion of gold was extracted in the city limits over a duration of two decades, making it one of the wealthiest cities in the United States by the late nineteenth century. The concentration of wealth contributed to the city's prominent, elaborate Victorian architecture. At the 2010 census Helena's population was 28,190, making it the fifth least populous state capital in the United States and the sixth most populous city in Montana. It is the princ...
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  • 1. Montana Historical Society Museum Helena
    The Montana Historical Society is a historical society located in the U.S. State of Montana that acts to preserve historical resources important to the understanding of Montana history. The Society provides services through six operational programs: Administration, Research Center, Museum, Publications, Historic Preservation, and Education. It is governed by a 15-member Board of Trustees, appointed by the Governor, which hires the director of the Society and sets policy for the agency. Founded in 1865, it is one of the oldest such institutions in the Western United States.
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  • 3. Archie Bray Foundation Helena
    The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts is a public, nonprofit, educational institution located 3 miles from downtown Helena, Montana, United States. It was founded on the site of the former Western Clay Manufacturing Company in 1951 by brickmaker Archie Bray, a philanthropist and avid patron of the arts. Bray intended it to be a place to make available for all who are seriously and sincerely interested in any of the branches of the ceramic arts, a fine place to work. Although Bray died in 1953, his foundation survived the 1960 closure of Western Clay and in 1984 purchased the abandoned brickyard building and kilns. Today the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts is internationally acclaimed and listed on the American National Register of Historic Places. The artist residency...
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  • 4. MontanaWILD Helena
    The historic town of Rocky Point was on the south side of the Missouri River in Fergus County, Montana, in the Missouri Breaks. Rocky Point was located at a natural ford on the Missouri River. In prehistoric times, American bisons trailed down through the breaks to Rocky Point to cross the river. During the Missouri River steamboat era , the buffalo trail system leading to and from the ford caused Rocky Point to become a steamboat landing, which received freight for mining camps in the Judith Mountains and in the Little Rocky Mountains and also for Fort Maginnis built in 1880. In the 1870s and 1880s, Rocky Point had a store, hotel, two saloons, a feed stable, a blacksmith shop and a ferry. Due to its remote location in the Missouri Breaks, in the 1870s and 1880s Rocky Point became a refuge...
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  • 5. Holter Museum of Art Helena
    Holter Dam is a hydroelectric straight gravity dam on the Missouri River about 45 miles northeast of Helena, Montana, in the United States. The dam, which was built between 1908 and 1918, is 1,364 feet long and 124 feet high. The reservoir formed by the dam, Holter Lake is 25 miles long and has a storage capacity of 243,000 acre feet of water when full. The dam is a run-of-the-river dam because it can generate electricity without needing to store additional water supplies behind the dam.
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  • 6. B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center Indianola Mississippi
    The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is a Delta blues museum with the mission to empower, unite and heal through music, art and education and share with the world the rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta. The museum, named for blues legend, B.B. King, is located in his hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, in the United States.
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