The Lee County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Lee County, IL. To this end, the society operates a research center.

The society offers research center access and research assistance.

In spring and summer, bright flowers surround this plantation house named for its location on a horseshoe bend in the Deep River. The house (circa 1770) was owned by Philip Alston, whose band of colonists seeking independence from Britain was attacked here in 1781 during the American Revolution by British loyalists led by David Fanning. Later, four-term governor Benjamin Williams lived in the house, which now features antiques of the colonial and Revolutionary War eras.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Liendo Plantation was founded in 1853 as one of the earliest cotton plantations in Texas. Union officer George A. Custer (1839-1876) was stationed at the plantation toward the end of the Civil War; and the site was home to sculptor Elisabet Ney (1833-1907) and her husband between 1873 and 1911. The site also houses a Detering Red Brahman cow breeding program, and hosts an annual Civil War weekend.

The plantation offers guided tours and period rooms. Reservations are required for group tours. Boxed lunches are available. Please contact the plantation for more information.

The Leominster Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Leominster, MA.

The society offers exhibits, research library access, self-guided tours, and guided tours. Reservations are required for guided tours.

The Floyd County Museum presents historical and modern agricultural and industrial prairie life in Floyd County, Iowa. Highlights include tractors; 19th-century tools; and artifacts related to women's suffrage leader Carrie Lane Chapman Catt (1859-1947), founder of the League of Women Voters. Period rooms include a circa 1900 drug store setting and a country schoolroom. The collection focuses on the years 1850 through 1950. The museum is located within a historical laboratory building. Charles City, where the museum is located, is best know as the site of the first gasoline-powered tractors.

The museum offers exhibits and period rooms.

Oatlands Plantation was built in 1798 by George Carter, of the prominent Carter family of Virginia, as a grain plantation. The federal style plantation house was completed in 1804. The plantation was commercially successful until the advent of the Civil War. During the first half of the 20th century the plantation served as the country home of Mr. and Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis, a Washington political family.

The site offers several educational tours that meet Virginia SOLs for grades 2, 4, 5, and 6. The site also maintains a research library for teacher and student use.

The Filson Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley. The society's offices are located within the 1905 Beaux Arts Ferguson Mansion. A museum is located within the carriage house. Collection highlights include the largest number of antebellum portraits in Kentucky; Clark, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, family artifacts; and Shaker artifacts. Exhibit topics include Kentucky pioneers, Shaker life, slave life, and the Civil War. The society also operates a library, containing more than 50,000 volumes.

The society offers period rooms, exhibits, tours of the mansion and museum for students, traveling trunks, non-circulating research library access, and research assistance. A daily fee is charged for research library access. Payment is required for research conducted on request. Please call ahead if you wish to use the library. Reservations are required for student tours.

The 3,700-acre Fort Stevens State Historical Site commemorates Fort Stevens, one of three forts created to defend the harbor near the mouth of the Columbia River. The fort remained an active military site between the Civil War and World War II. The grounds also include a historic shipwreck, a gun battery and World War II command center, a museum of the fort's history, and enclosed Civil War earthworks.

The site offers exhibits, nine miles of bicycle trails, six miles of hiking trails, outdoor activities, and a picnic area. During the summer, the site also offers blacksmithing demonstrations, 90-minute tours of the gun batteries, and truck tours of the fortifications.

The Aerospace Museum of California contains exhibits that contain military and civilian aircraft, aircraft and rocket engines original aviation art, interactive displays, and a motion-ride simulator.

The museum offers student tours, summer camps, teacher resources, and an Aerospace Learning Center designed to provide hands-on educational experiences for students of all levels, especially middle and high school students. The programs focus on science and technology curriculum.

The Belle of Louisville site operates two vessels—the 1914 steamboat Belle of Louisville and the 1963 riverboat Spirit of Jefferson. Over the course of her history, the Belle of Louisville has served as a passenger ferry, excursion vessel, and World War II oil barge mover and troop nightclub. She is the oldest operating river steamboat. The Spirit of Jefferson has always been an excursion vessel.

The site offers cruises, curriculum-based sight-seeing excursions for students, and outreach programs for students. Field trips are available during the month of May, and are designed for kindergarten through eighth grade.