Big Horn County Historical Society and Museum [MT] Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:36
Description

The Big Horn County Historical Society and Museum seeks to preserve and protect the history of Big Horn County, MT. To this end, the society operates a museum. The museum includes 23 historic structures on 22-acres of land, previously used as a vegetable farm. The farmhouse and barn are original to the location, while the remaining 21 structures have been transported to the site from within Big Horn County. Three buildings house exhibits, which include horse-drawn vehicles, tractors, early automobiles, and farm machinery.

The society offers exhibits, self-guided tours, and guided tours.

Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages [NY] Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 04/22/2009 - 15:01
Description

The Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages allows visitors the chance to learn about three unique subjects. Through recreated period rooms and permanent and traveling exhibits, visitors can explore Long Island history and its relation to natural history; in the art galleries, they can view pieces from the early 1800s to the present day; and, in the 10 carriage galleries, they can compare almost 100 carriages. Visitors may also walk through the grounds and the historic structures on-site, dating from the late 18th through the late 19th century.

The museum offers exhibits and tours and educational programs for school groups.

Radnor Historical Society and the Finley House [PA] Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:38
Description

The Radnor Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Radnor, Pennsylvania and the surrounding area. To this end, the society operates the 1789 Finley House. The residence houses a circa 1800 kitchen, a local history exhibit room, the society's library, archives, and a bedroom furnished in the style of circa 1840. The grounds also include a wagon house, which holds historic vehicles, and gardens. Collection highlights include a Conestoga wagon.

The society offers exhibits, period rooms, gardens, and archival access.

Studebaker National Museum [IN]

Description

The Studebaker National Museum presents the history of the Studebaker Corporation, an automobile manufacturer; and, in doing so, displays U.S. transportation history. The Studebaker brothers' blacksmith shop, founded in 1852, would eventually be reconfigured as the world's largest wagon manufacturer and the producer of both military and civilian vehicles. Collection highlights include a 19th-century Conestoga wagon; military vehicles from six wars; and the presidential carriages of Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley. Lincoln's carriage is the vehicle he used to travel to Ford's Theater the night of his assassination. The Studebaker Archives house more than 50,000 images, engineering drawings, and 500 motion picture titles comprising the corporate archives of the Studebaker Corporation, the Packard Motor Car Company, and local South Bend industries. The museum structure itself incorporates design elements of Studebaker dealerships of the 1920s and 1930s.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, archival access, and research assistance. Both archival access and research assistance require payment.

Woodlawn Museum [ME] Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:36
Description

Woodlawn Museum is a historic home, containing its original furnishings. Collections include both European and American art, furniture, carriages, and sleighs. Completed in 1827, Woodlawn housed a major area timber and land dealing family.

The museum offers guided tours, period rooms, free croquet lessons, an annual lecture series, a hands-on historic game library, and gardens. All special events include children's activities. Reservations are required for school tours. Picnic lunches are welcome on grounds. The website offers children's activities.

Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum [NY] Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:28
Description

The site consists of an 1816 Federal House and furnishings, one of the largest horse-drawn vehicle collections in Western New York State, five outbuildings, and 12 acres.

The site offers tours, exhibits, carriage rides, educational programs, workshops, and recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Old Town San Diego State Historic Park [CA] Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:27
Description

Old Town San Diego State Historic Park presents the opportunity to experience the history of early San Diego by providing a connection to the past. Visitors can learn about life in the Mexican and early American periods of 1821 to 1872, as converging cultures transformed San Diego from a Mexican pueblo to an American settlement. The core of restored original historic buildings from the interpretive period are complemented by reconstructed sites, along with early 20th-century buildings designed in the same mode. The Historic Plaza remains a gathering place for community events and historic activity. Five original adobe buildings are part of the historic park, which includes museums, unique retail shops, and several restaurants. La Casa de Estudillo is a mansion built around a garden courtyard. La Casa de Machado y Stewart is full of artifacts that reflect ordinary life of the period. Some of the other historic buildings include the Mason Street School (California's first public schoolhouse), La Casa de Machado y Silvas, the San Diego Union Printing Office (site of the city's oldest surviving newspaper office), and the first brick courthouse. The Seeley Stables Museum, with newly rehabilitated exhibits on overland transportation, houses one of the finest wagon and carriage collections. Visitors can experience a working blacksmith shop, enjoy music, see or touch the park's burros, and engage in activities that represent early San Diego.

The park offers exhibits, tours, living history events and programs, and other recreational and educational events.

Dover Historical Society and J.E. Reeves Victorian Home and Museum [OH] Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:26
Description

This 17-room Victorian home, topped by a third-floor ballroom, has been carefully restored by the Society to its original turn-of-the-century splendor and features the unique treasures of the original furniture and antiques that were the property of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah E. Reeves, arranged as they would have been 100 years ago. These beautiful family furnishings can be viewed up close, as there are no ropes or barriers prohibiting entrance into the rooms. The Carriage House Museum, located behind the home, contains an interesting collection of vehicles—the family's handsome, horse-drawn carriage, along with the family sleigh, a rare electric car, and a newly restored doctor's buggy. Throughout the carriage house are numerous displays and artifacts that trace Dover's past, a past quite typical of many small towns in America.

The house and museum offer exhibits; tours; occasional lectures; and occasional educational and recreational events, including living history events.

Deerfield Area Historical Society Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:26
Description

The Deerfield Area Historical Society is dedicated to preserving and interpreting local history and architecture in Deerfield, Bannockburn, Riverwoods, and Lincolnshire. It also created and maintains the Deerfield Historic Village, made up of five buildings dating from 1837 to 1905 that offer a look at a typical prairie community.

The village offers tours, exhibits, and educational programs.

Carriages and Wagons Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/27/2009 - 06:02
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Teaser

Trade in your old Cabriolet for a new 1876 Landau? Should you purchase the trendiest and most fashionable carriage?

quiz_instructions

One of the crowd-pleasers at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was a vast hall in which carriage-makers from America and Europe exhibited examples of the models of carriages and wagons they made. Match the images of the horse-drawn vehicles displayed at the Fair with the names of the models.

Quiz Answer

A.
Landau


B.
Brougham


C.
Buggy


D.
Rockaway


E.
Cabriolet


F.
Phaeton


Sources
  • Draft-Book of Centennial Carriages, Displayed in Philadelphia, at the International Exhibition of 1876. New York: Hub Publishing Company, 1876. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AKC8391.0001.001
  • On the training and trade of 19th-century carriage makers in America, see: Thomas A. Kinney. The Carriage Trade: Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
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