Forney Transportation Museum [CO]

Description

The Forney Transportation Museum chronicles the history of motorized transportation, from trains and vintage automobiles to snowmobiles and motorcycles. The museum boasts an impressive collection of vintage vehicles and is open to visitors year round.

The museum offers guided tours, special presentations, and exhibits on the history of transportation. The website offers visitor information and an events calendar.

Townshend Historical Society [VT]

Description

The Townshend Historical Society is dedicated to researching and preserving the history of the town of Townshend. The society has published a local history book, and also works with local schools in order to create innovative ways to study history.

The society offers presentations and school programs. The website offers general information regarding the society.

Tillman County Historical Museum [OK]

Description

The Tillman County Historical Museum is located in the Horse Creek School in downtown Frederick. The museum features extensive collections of historical artifacts relating to the history of Tillman County. Museum highlights include vintage firefighting and farming equipment.

The museum offers exhibits and guided tours. The website offers visitor information and a brief history of the museum.

Bayside Historical Society, Lawrence Cemetery, and Museum [NY]

Description

The Bayside Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Bayside and Queens, New York, as well as neighboring communities. To this end, the society operates a number of exhibits within the 1887 Gothic Revival Army Officer's Club. The society also maintains the Lawrence Cemetery, a family plot with burials dating between 1832 and 1939. Individuals of note interred on site include Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, Mayor of the New York City between 1834 and 1837; County Judge Effingham Lawrence and his Native American servant Lawrence Moccasin; and Colonel Frederick Newbold Lawrence, president of the New York Stock Exchange between 1882 and 1883.

The society offers exhibits, tours of the Officer's Club, educational programs, and archival access. Lawrence Cemetery is open by appointment only. The second floor of the Officer's Club is not wheelchair accessible. The website offers virtual exhibits.

North Carolina Railroad Museum

Description

The North Carolina Railroad Museum is an outdoor museum consisting of exhibits of historic railroad equipment. Many of the artifacts in the collection were made and/or used in North Carolina. Collection highlights include a 1/24-scale model railroad with over 1,000 feet of track; eight stationary historic locomotives, dating from 1941 to 1953; and eight operating historic railway cars.

The museum offers exhibits, locomotive rides, and a barbecue vendor.

Landmark West! [NY]

Description

Landmark West! is an advocacy and education organization striving for preservation of the historical architecture from 59th to 110th Streets between Central Park West and Riverside Drive in New York City's Upper West Side.

The organization offers an educational program titled "Keeping the Past for the Future," which was awarded the American Architectural Foundation's Award of Merit for K-12 Architectural Education in February 2008. The program includes a student workbook, lessons, walking tours, and workshops; and is free to New York City public schools.

Liberty Hall Historic Site [KY]

Description

The Liberty Hall Historic Site presents the life of Senator John Brown (1757-1837) and his descendants. Margaretta Mason Brown, John's wife, promoted abolitionism and women's education. The site consists of the 1796 Federal-style Liberty Hall, home of Brown; the 1835 Greek Revival Orlando Brown House, home of one of Brown's sons; and the surrounding grounds and gardens.

The site offers period rooms; 75-minute tours of both residences; a living history outreach presentation with hands-on activities; and an educational program for students, which includes a 17-minute film. Advance notice is required for groups of 10 or more. The site is only partially wheelchair accessible. The website offers descriptions and images of select artifacts.

McConnells Mill State Park [PA]

Description

The 2,546-acre McConnells Mill State Park preserves an 1868 gristmill and the Slippery Rock Creek Gorge, which was formed as prehistoric glacial lakes drained. The gristmill is operational, and was one of the country's earliest rolling mills. It harnessed waterpower to grind buckwheat, corn, wheat, and oats into flour.

The site offers guided hikes, night programs, school activities, guided mill tours, picnic areas, and charcoal grills. The park requests that visitors remain on the trails, and refrain from swimming. Please avoid bringing firewood into the park, as it can allow for the entry of invasive species.

Hampton Plantation State Historic Site [SC]

Description

The Hampton Plantation State Historic Site presents the stories of slavery within the plantation system, the plantation life of African Americans post-emancipation, Lowcountry (coastal South Carolina) rice production, and colonial architecture. The 274-acre site includes an 18th-century Georgian plantation home and kitchen building.

The site offers guided tours, educational programs, interpretive trails, and a waterway canoe tour. The website offers transcriptions of letters written by plantation inhabitants.