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In the mid 1980s I built a database by hand of American museums from large volumes containing the addresses of all the museums in the country. I made a list as I went along of odd, small museums that caught my attention. Here is a list of institutions of which you many not have heard but which reveal something of the excitement of American culture. Ivy Green, Birthplace of Helen Keller, Tuscumbia, Alabama Daisy Internatioinal Air Gun Museum, Rogers, Arkansas US Army Finance Corps Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana John Wayne Birthplace Society, Ltd., Winterset, Iowa The Barbed Wire Museum, 500 varieties of barbed wire, La Crosse, Kansas Emmett Kelly Historical Museum, Sedan Kansas (Emmett Kelly was a circus clown) Yazoo Historical Museum, Yazoo City, Mississippi Jesse James House Museum, the place where James was killed 3 April 1882, St. Joseph, Missouri. National Bowling Hall of Fame and Musuem, Saint Louis, Missouri Millard Fillmore House, East Aurora, NY Home Sweet Home Museum, East Hampton, New York Crestline Skunk Museum, Crestline, Ohio National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma National Softball Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Stillwater, Oklahoma South Carolina Criminal Justice Hall of Fame, Columbia, South Carolina South Dakota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame, Lake Nordeen, South Dakota Museum of Tobacco Art and History, Nashville, Tennissee
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