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The United States Penitentiary, Marion is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Illinois. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has an adjacent satellite prison camp that houses minimum security male offenders. USP Marion in Southern Illinois is approximately 9 miles south of the city of Marion, Illinois, 300 miles south of Chicago, and 120 miles southeast of St. Louis, Missouri.
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  • 1. Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum Auburn Indiana
    Auburn was a brand name of American automobiles produced from 1900 through 1937.
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  • 2. The Delta Blues Museum Clarksdale
    William Christopher Handy was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues. An African American, Handy was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre and was not the first to publish music in the blues form, but he took the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.Handy was an educated musician who used elements of folk music in his compositions. He was scrupulous in documenting the sources of his works, which frequently combined stylistic influences from various performers.
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  • 3. Iowa 80 Trucking Museum Walcott
    This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace are not included.
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  • 4. Wyandot Popcorn Museum Marion Ohio
    Wyandot Snacks is a privately held and family owned American snack food manufacturer headquartered in Marion, Ohio, a part of the Columbus, Ohio Combined statistical area. The corporation is the maker of a variety of traditional and better for you packaged snacks , primarily as a contract manufacturer for domestic and international branded snack businesses, but also for foodservice customers. The company's main product lines are extruded snacks, ready to eat popcorn, and corn & tortilla chips. Wyandot's seven food scientists focus on the creation of plant-based snack products made from ancient grains such as sorghum and quinoa, pulses such as chickpeas, and flaxseed, among others.
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  • 5. Sultana Disaster Museum Marion Arkansas
    Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat. On April 27, 1865, the boat exploded in the worst maritime disaster in United States history. She was designed with a capacity of only 376 passengers, but she was carrying 2,155 when three of the boat's four boilers exploded and she burned to the waterline and sank near Memphis, Tennessee, killing 1,192 passengers. This disaster was overshadowed in the press by other events surrounding the end of the American Civil War, most particularly the killing on the previous day of President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth. The wooden steamboat was constructed in 1863 by the John Litherbury Boatyard in Cincinnati, intended for the lower Mississippi cotton trade. The steamer registered 1,719 tons and normally carried a crew of 85. For two yea...
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  • 7. Granger House Museum Marion Iowa
    The Granger House, also known as the Marion Historical Museum and the Granger House Museum, is a historic building located in Marion, Iowa, United States. This Victorian Italianate house was built around 1860 by Charles Myers. Earl Granger bought the house in 1876 and it remained in his family until 1973. Granger built the carriage house in 1879, and built an addition onto the main house the following year. The two-story brick building featues a 1½-story ell, a gable roof, bracketed eaves, and arched stone lintels over the symmetrically arranged windows. The front porch is not the original. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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  • 8. Quilters Hall of Fame Marion Indiana
    The Marie Webster House, also known as George Webster Jr. and Marie Daugherty House, was the home of quilter Marie Webster in Marion, Indiana. Built in 1905 in the Colonial Revival style of architecture, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993, it is home to the Quilters Hall of Fame. The Quilters Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring those who have made outstanding contributions to the world of quilting. Founded in 1979 by Hazel McDowell Carter, the Hall features a museum with exhibits of quilts and quilt-makers.
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