Yolo County Historical Society, Spring Lakes School, and Hattie Weber Museum [CA]

Description

The Yolo County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Yolo County, California. To this end, the society operates the Spring Lakes School and the Hattie Weber Museum. The school is used to introduce students to education and the school experience circa 1890. The Hattie Weber Museum presents the local history of Davis, California and the surrounding areas. The museum is named after Davisville's first paid librarian, who began her career in 1906.

The society offers educational programs for students in the Spring Lakes School, and exhibits and school tours in the Hattie Weber Museum.

Maritime Event Center [WA]

Description

The Maritime Event Center is a rental and special events venue which also maintains an interactive maritime museum.

The center offers interactive exhibits and both youth classes and tours about Puget Sound's maritime history, fisheries, global trade, and transportation.

Kensington Mansion [SC]

Description

Kensington Mansion is an 1854 Italianate Revival residence furnished with Victorian decorative arts. The grounds include the original kitchen building. Jacob Stroyer's (1848-1909) biography My Life in the South, published in 1879, described his time as a slave on Headquarters Plantation, site of Kensington Manor.

The mansion offers period rooms and guided tours. Reservations are required for groups of 10 or more.

Hazelwood Historic House Museum [WI]

Description

The Hazelwood Historic House Museum is a Greek Revival residence furnished in the 1880 through 1899 Victorian styles. Home owner Morgan L. Martin (1805-1887) served as state convention president at the time the Wisconsin state constitution was drafted.

The museum offers house tours and neighborhood tours. Reservations are required for groups of 10 or more. Tour options include added refreshments.

Washburn-Norlands Living History Center [ME]

Description

The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center depicts 18th- and 19th-century rural life in the state of Maine. Norlands was originally the Washburn family home. This family included a Senator, Secretary of State, congressmen, governors, and founders of the Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal Flour Company. Structures include a one-room schoolhouse, mansion, meeting house, and library.

The site offers living history interpreters, period rooms, guided building tours, self-guided grounds tours, curriculum-based interactive programs for students, outreach programs for schools, hands-on activities, overnight programs, and picnic tables.

State Indian Museum State Historic Park [CA]

Description

The California State Indian Museum displays exhibits and artifacts illustrating the cultures of the state's first inhabitants. California's prehistoric population, one of the largest and most diverse in the Western hemisphere, was made up of over 150 distinct tribal groups who spoke at least 64 different languages. California Indian population estimates, before the arrival of the first Europeans, were at least 500,000 people. California Indian cultural artifacts in the museum include basketry, beadwork, clothing, and exhibits about the ongoing traditions of various California Indian tribes. Descendents of the first Californians, tens of thousands of them, still live in California and still cherish and carry on their unique cultural heritage. Indigenous people have donated many photographs of family, friends, and memorable times for use in the museum. A section of the museum features a hands-on area, where visitors can try their hand at using Indian tools, such as the pump drill, used for making holes in shell beads and other materials and the mortar and pestle and soap root brush, made from the soap root plant, all used for grinding acorns.

The museum offers exhibits and tours.

Cumberland County Historical Society and Museums [NJ]

Description

The Cumberland County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Cumberland County, NJ. To this end, the society operates the Gibbon House Museum, John DuBois Maritime Museum, Reba and Warren Lummis Genealogical and Historical Research Library, and Cumberland County Prehistorical Museum. The John DuBois Maritime Museum presents Southern Jersey 19th- and 20th-century maritime history. Collections include caulking tools, rigging apparatus, shipwrights' tools, and builders' models. The Cumberland County Prehistorical Museum presents local ancient history, as well as more recent Native American history. Collections include Native American artifacts and fossils. Native American groups discussed include the Clovis, Lenape, Little Siconese, Sewapose, and Alloway.

The society offers exhibits, group tours, fourth and fifth grade educational programs, student tours, research library access, research assistance, hearthside cooking classes, and monthly continuing education classes. The John DuBois Maritime Museum is open by appointment only. A fee is charged for research assistance. At least two weeks notice is required for all school visits. The website offers pre- and post-visit activity suggestions.