Place is the most important factor in the visitor experience at Minuteman Missile. The expansive, wide open landscape of western South Dakota is the setting for Launch Control Facility Delta-01 and Launch Facility (Missile Silo) Delta-09. This landscape along with these two sites provides the backdrop to one of the most dramatic stories in American History. Delta-01 and Delta-09 represent sites that were of the utmost importance to national defense. They provide visitors with the specific places where the people and stories associated with Minuteman Missiles, strategic nuclear deterrence and the Cold War occurred.
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 From 1963 until the early 1990s, the missile silo at Delta-09 contained a fully operational Minuteman Missile, bearing a 1.2 megaton nuclear warhead. The Delta-09 missile silo was one of 150 spread across western South Dakota. In total there were 1,000 Minuteman's deployed from the 1960's into the early 1990's. Visitors can now tour the site on their own.  Delta-01 functioned as topside support for the underground Launch Control Center which lay 31 feet below the Launch Control Facility. It acted as a multi-purpose facility. To see the interior of Delta-01, visitors need to attend a ranger-guided tour. Due to the size of the elevator and the confined space underground, tours are limited to 6 visitors at a time.
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 From a place she called Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote books and newspaper columns, served as the first U.S. delegate to the United Nations, chaired the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Val-Kill was a center of her development as activist, humanitarian, diplomat, and one of the most consequential leaders of the twentieth century.  The Belvedere Complex consists of the Belvedere, the Bowling Alley, the Garden Workshop, the Greenhouse, and the outdoor swimming pool. It was designed in the 1870s by architect Detlef Lienau for the Billings family. In the 1950s, the Rockefellers hired architect Theodor Muller to renovate the Belvedere's interior including the Bowling Alley and soda fountain. A fallout shelter was added in the 1960s. Interior tours are available May-October.  The Eisenhower flagpole is a central feature of the property. The Suffolk County Republican Committee of New York donated this flagpole in May 1955. An American flag flew here when a member of the Eisenhower family was present. During Eisenhower's presidency, the presidential flag also flew here. Once Eisenhower left office, the five-star general flag flew from this flagpole.  The South Dakota Air & Space Museum boasts an extensive collection of artifacts and documents that capture the distinguished history of Ellsworth Air Force Base, the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, and the 28th Bomb Wing throughout the Cold War.  Built in 1962 as a Minuteman missile launch control facility, Quebec-01 was re-purposed for the Peacekeeper Missile in 1986 and was used until 2005. Twenty-five miles north of Cheyenne, the Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility is open to the public as a Wyoming State Park.  The Eisenhower home served as a place of rest, relaxation, and recovery during their years in the White House. This home was the only home the Eisenhowers owned together, and they would stay here for the rest of their lives.  Built in 1943 in San Pedro, California, she is one of 175 Fletcher-class destroyers built during World War II. Here in Charlestown, this navy yard built dozens of similar ships during the war. In the 1950s, Cassin Young and many other destroyers received regular repairs and modernization in Charlestown.  Roses were a favorite flower of both General and Mrs. Eisenhower. Historic documentation shows that roses were always intended to decorate the landscape around the Eisenhower home. The rose gardens were established by early 1955 and contained a wide variety of roses, many of which were gifts to the Eisenhowers.  In the afternoon of July 2, 1863 Confederate General James Longstreet placed his troops along Warfield Ridge and anchored the left of his line in these woods, owned by a man named Samuel Pitzer.  By 1945, the U.S. Army sought a weapon that could intercept enemy aircraft. In 1951,a supersonic missile named Nike was developed.
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