The Boothbay Railway Village operates a narrow-gauge coal-fired steam train in a recreated historic village composed of locally significant historic structures. Additionally the museum exhibits one of the finest presentations of antique vehicles in New England.
The village offers exhibits, train rides, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Century House Historical Society preserves the industrial history of the Rosendale natural cement region, operating from the Snyder Estate. The estate began in the early 1800s as a family farm. With the local discovery of natural cement, the site experienced substantial industrial growth until the 1970s.
The society and the estate offer exhibits, tours, and occasional educational and recreational events.
The Museum displays exhibits on Pasadena history. It also operates the 1906 Fenyes Mansion and the Finnish Folk Art Museum.
The Museum of History offers exhibits, tours, and research library access. and recreational and educational events; the mansion offers tours; the Folk Art Museum offers exhibits and tours.
The Sharlot Hall Museum site consists of a central museum center and several historic buildings, including the 1864 Governor's Mansion, the 1934 Sharlot Hall Building (the museum's main exhibit space), the 1875 Fremont House, the 1877 Bashford House, the 1863 home Fort Misery, and a 1937 automobile-repair garage (which houses the museum's vehicle collection).
The museum offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
Nestled in the Litchfield Hills, Topsmead State Forest preserves a piece of a past era with the fine craftsmanship and understated wealth evident throughout the former summer estate of Miss Edith Morton Chase.
The site offers tours.
The Mansion was the home of philanthropist, railroad magnate, and founder of Lehigh University, Asa Packer. Built in 1861 by Philadelphia architect, Samuel Sloan, the home was constructed over a span of two years and cost a total of $14,000 dollars, the equivalent of $2.3 million dollars today. Topped by a red-ribbed tin roof and a central cupola or belvedere, the home was built over a cast-iron frame and consists of three stories, 18 rooms and approximately 11,000 square feet of living space.
The museum offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Society operates the Northfield School Museum, dedicated to preserving the history of the old Northfield Middle School building. This building opened its doors in 1911 as the Northfield Central High School. With the construction of the new middle school the last classes were held in the old school in 2004.
The society offers research library access and occasional educational and recreational events; the museum offers exhibits.
Completed in 1851, this National Historic Landmark is a museum of state history and politics. Additions to the building were made several times. The Confederacy began in the original Senate chamber and the Selma to Montgomery 1965 Voting Rights March ended on the street in front of the building. Today, the governor and other executive branch officers still occupy offices in the Capitol.
The site offers exhibits and tours.
The Society owns and operates two historic sites. The 1885 Pottawattamie County Squirrel Cage Jail is one of 18 revolving ("squirrel cage," "human rotary," or "lazy Susan") jails built. The RailsWest History Center, housed in the 1899 Rock Island Depot, has displays of dining car silverware, a telegraph office, and memorabilia such as porters' uniforms and ticket stubs, as well as railcars and a model railroad.
The sites offer tours and exhibits; the society offers lectures and educational and recreational programs.
The National Railroad Museum, built in 1958, strives to introduce visitors to a chapter in American history that bought wealth and modernity to millions of Americans. The Museum looks beyond the simple technical history of rail to the cultural and economic changes it brought to America.
The site offers virtual tours, event and museum information, teacher resources, and an online gift shop.