The Rock Island County Historical Society is a non-profit organization founded in 1905 by a group of community leaders dedicated to preserving the history of Rock Island County. Its facilities are located in an 1870s home and adjoining research archival library in an historic district of Moline, Illinois. The Atkinson-Peek House Museum contains period furniture dating back to the early 1900s and is designated as a Moline historical site. The third floor room contains exhibits of a doctor's office and a dentist's office.

The society's research library features a collection of books, photographs, family histories, and maps detailing the history of the county. The library has educational and recreational programs; the museum offers tours and exhibits.

The 1876 Grand Union Hotel, also called El Hotel Grande, and eventually the Stagecoach Inn, has had a variety of uses during its existence. It has served as post office, tearoom, boys' military school, restaurant, and exclusive gift shop. A cowboy movie starring Hoot Gibson and Sally Eilers was filmed here in the 1930s. Around the Stagecoach Inn are the Tri-Village buildings, made up of replicas of a pioneer home, a Spanish-Mexican adobe, and a Chumash Ap (tule dwelling), representing the three historic eras in the Conejo Valley.

The museum offers tours, exhibits, and educational programs.

Since 1966, the Society has preserved historical records, collected writings and artifacts of life in Louisa County, and presented these collections to the public through exhibits, magazines and lectures. It operates The Sargeant Museum of Louisa County History at 214 Fredericksburg Avenue in Louisa, which has permanent exhibits featuring Native Peoples, Revolutionary War, Civil War, Transportation, Education and Government. Temporary exhibits delve more deeply into particular periods and themes of interest. In addition, the museum staff sponsor monthly programs for the public and offer genealogical assistance. Visit the Society’s website for hours, upcoming events, and online resources.

Programs are available for 4th and 5th grade history classes in The Westward Movement, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights. Others upon request. An online archive at provides primary source materials for teachers and students across all levels of study. Contact the museum director for more information.

Visitors to the Society's Museum can see an 1861 log house, 1856 cabin, and 1930s filling station. Also on the half-block museum site is the 1861 Chicago Rock Island Depot which originally was in Victor, IA, and a 1900 period farmhouse. Each structure has period furnishings and other historical items. The filling station display includes an antique race car and 1938 fire truck. The new addition houses clothing and military displays, original furnishing from the Gritter School, and items that would be found in a country store. The museum's collection of uniforms and military gear spans from the Spanish American War through the Civil War, World War I, World War II (including both men's and women's uniforms), Vietnam, and Desert Storm.

The museum offers exhibits and research library access.

The Society operates the McLean County Museum of History, housed in the Old McLean County Courthouse. The Museum presents exhibits and programs that explore the history of Central Illinois and its people.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, workshops, and other educational and recreational programs.

The Roberson Museum and Science Center is a complex of educational institutions, including historic buildings and museum exhibits and facilities treating art, history, and science.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, film screenings, classes, and other educational and recreational events.

The Museum was built in 1876 as the First Universalist Church, and served as the Potsdam Public Library, with the Museum in the lower level, from 1940 until 1976. Today, it is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of local history and the decorative arts. The Museum exhibits artifacts related to the Knowles Family of Potsdam and the history of Potsdam, as well as ceramic, pottery, and porcelain pieces drawn from the Burnap Collection.

The museum offers exhibits, research library access, and educational and recreational events.

The Mystic River Historical Society, founded in 1973, owns an ever-growing collection of Mystic-related historical books, maps, photographs, and other documents and artifacts contributed by the community. It houses these collections in the William A. Downes Archives Building, erected by the Society specifically to provide a safe environment for them. It maintains part-time archival and curatorial staff available to assist researchers and to continue the organization and cataloging of the collections. In addition to the Downes Building, the Society owns the 1839 Portersville Academy, purchased from the Town of Groton in 1975 and partially restored. This historical building serves as the Society's education and outreach space. A schoolroom of the 1840s has been recreated upstairs, and historical displays form a backdrop for educational activities downstairs.

The society offers exhibits, lectures, tours, research library access, and educational programs.

The Society's museum is housed in the 1773 home of Dr. William Henry Stoy, a local minister and prominent Revolutionary War doctor. Throughout the museum, visitors will find examples of Pennsylvania German craftsmanship in such items as furniture, quilting and weaving, fraktur, and redware. Exhibits include recreations of several early shops and offices and explorations of community industries such as blacksmithing, farming and milling, carpentry, weaving, printing, shoemaking, and mining.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and research library access; the society offers educational and recreational programs.

Since 1830, the Society has connected people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state's history. A nonprofit membership organization, the IHS also publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshops; provides youth, adult, and family programming; provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups; and maintains the nation's premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest. The society also maintains the Indiana History Center, where events and programs are held and exhibits housed.

The center offers exhibits, tours, lectures, film screenings, research library access, and educational and recreational programs.