Washington County Historical Society, LeMoyne House, and LeMoyne Crematory [Pennsylvania]

Description

Located in the LeMoyne House in Washington, Pennsylvania, the WCHS provides many programs, activities, and services to individuals and groups in the tri-state area. The LeMoyne House is Pennsylvania's first National Historic Landmark of the Underground Railroad. Built in 1812 by John Julius LeMoyne, the house became part of the Underground Railroad under his son, Francis Julius LeMoyne. The society also oversees the LeMoyne Crematory, the first crematory in the United States.

The house offers tours, exhibits, and access to a research library; the crematory offers tours; and the society offers lectures, workshops, conferences, and other educational programs.

Job Carr Cabin Museum

Description

The Job Carr Cabin replication is a museum commemorating the original Euro-American settler of what is now Tacoma and his vision of locating the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad on Commencement Bay.

The museum offers tours, exhibits, historical reenactors, and educational and recreational programs.

Northern Ohio Railway Museum

Description

NORM was founded in 1965 and incorporated in 1976 as a not-for-profit education and historical organization. Its goals are to collect, preserve, restore, operate, and display streetcars and other railway-related equipment. On two miles of the historic Cleveland Southwestern Railway, the museum is working towards its goals to collect, preserve, restore, display, and operate streetcars and other railway equipment for use by the public.

The museums offers tours, exhibits, and monthly meetings.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society

Description

The Society allows visitors to step into the original Surveyors' House from Laura's book By the Shores of Silver Lake, or see firsthand Pa's craftsmanship in the house he built on Third Street, the Ingalls Home. The Society is open year-round and offers tours of the two original Ingalls family homes filled with items that belonged to Laura and her family and the First School of De Smet. There are 16 other sites in De Smet that Laura mentioned in her books that visitors may also see.

The society offers exhibits and tours.

Sauder Village

Description

Visitors to Sauder Village experience history up close as costumed staff lead activities and demonstrations of daily rural life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Depending on the day and season, visitors may encounter hymn singing, demonstrations of old printing techniques, samples of a 19th-century recipe, or a chance to taste a homemade pickle or help with food preparation. The craft buildings and studios are home to several nationally-recognized craftsmen working with traditional crafts in both historic and modern interpretations. The village also includes a 350-seat restaurant; a bakery; a campground; a 98-room country inn; and an exhibit/performance center, Founder's Hall.

Sauder Village offers historical reenactments, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and other opportunities.

Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation and Ware-Lyndon House [GA]

Description

The Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation seeks to become the leading advocate for the importance of historic preservation to the future of the Athens community. Located at the corner of Thomas and Dougherty Streets in historic downtown, the Foundation's visitor center is in Athens's oldest surviving residence, the Church-Waddel-Brumby House. The Foundation also operates the Ware-Lyndon House, built around 1850 by the first Mayor of Athens—physician and businessman, Edward R. Ware. Today, this two-story brick house represents a blend of the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. The first floor of the home features one of the finest American furniture and decorative arts collections of the Victorian period in Georgia. The house portrays the periods (1850–1890) within which the Ware and Lyndon families resided. A room in the house showcases museum quality memorabilia comprising many of the highlights of Athens history.

The foundation offers driving tours; the Ware-Lyndon House offers tours.

Warrenville Historical Society

Description

The Warrenville Historical Society was organized in 1980. Its purpose is to bring together those interested in Warrenville's History, and to collect, preserve and display objects and documents that illustrate that history. The Society established the Warrenville Historical Museum in 1983. Space was provided for the Museum in the Greek Revival Style Albright Building through the generosity of the City of Warrenville, interest groups, businesses and individuals.

Macomb County Historical Society and Crocker House Museum [Michigan]

Description

The Crocker House Museum offers a late Victorian home-life experience reminiscent of the world renowned Mineral Bath Era of Mount Clemens in Macomb County, Michigan.

The Macomb County Historical Society and its Crocker House Museum provide educational experiences of Mount Clemens and Macomb County history through the use of artifacts, rotating exhibits, publications, stories, and special educational programs. Our purpose is to collect and preserve our local heritage to instill an appreciation of our community's unique history.