Midwest Archeological Center 3.55

The Midwest Archeological Center was established on July 1, 1969, from the facilities, personnel, and equipment of the Smithsonian Institution's Missouri Basin Project (MBP). The MBP was a research office founded in Lincoln by Dr. Waldo Wedel in 1946 as the headquarters for River Basin Surveys investigations throughout the Missouri River basin, a vast region equivalent to one-sixth the size of the forty-eight contiguous states. The MBP operated in Lincoln from 1946 through June 30, 1969, when the River Basin Surveys program was ended and the MBP was transferred to the National Park Service and renamed the Midwest Archeological Center.