The Calvin B. Taylor House Berlin Town Museum is a residence dating from 1832, which has been furnished in period style. One wing serves as a local history museum for Berlin, Maryland. The town was once home to Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), Navy hero of the Barbary Wars and War of 1812.
The museum offers period rooms, exhibits, and concerts.
The General Butler State Resort Park includes the 1859 Greek Revival Butler-Turpin State Historic House. The house commemorates the Butler family, one of the most prominent military families of Kentucky. The Butlers served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War. Today, their home serves as a museum of local life and the family's military history. The site includes the family home, summer kitchen, log house archaeological site, and cemetery.
The house offers tours, as well as educational programming led by costumed interpreters and in compliance with state educational standards.
The San Lorenzo Valley Museum presents the history of California's San Lorenzo Valley. The museum is housed in a National Register old-growth redwood church built in 1906, and permanent exhibits include a logging display and a circa 1900s kitchen. The kitchen permits demonstration of its equipment to students.
The San Lorenzo Valley Museum offers docent-led tours of the museum to students of 2nd grade community history study, charter and home schools. 'Then and Now' presentations encourage historical comparisons using logging, railroad, antique kitchen, circa 1900 schoolroom, and rotating exhibits with accompanying hands-on activities. Hands-on activities are varied, including washing clothes in a tub with washboards and hand-wringer, making an Ohlone toy, or stenciling bookmarks.
The 1906 Charles A. Lindbergh House is the childhood home of Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), best known for his 1927 flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. Today, the house contains its original furnishings. A visitor's center provides a full-scale model of the Spirit of st. Louis's cockpit that guests can enter, in addition to information on Lindbergh's life, adventures, and conservation work.
The site offers period rooms, exhibits, films, tours, an interpretive trail, and numerous field trip programs tailored to Minnesota state educational standards. Reservations are required for tours.
The Point Lookout Lighthouse Preservation Society has conserved the Point Lookout Lighthouse structures, returning them to their 1925 appearance. Once a month, the society opens the lighthouse to the public. The coal and buoy sheds are not accessible to the public.
The society offers informed docents who answer visitor questions during open house events.
The Alice T. Miner Museum is a three-floor residence filled with Colonial Revival (late 19th century) period rooms.
The museum offers period rooms and guided tours. The website offers a selection of transcribed letters by a Civil War solider, Charles F. Moore.
The Monroe Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Monroe, Connecticut. The society operates the 1790 East Village-Barn Schoolhouse, which contains hornbooks (primers attached to a panel and covered with a thin sheet of horn), readers, and desks built to period appearance.
The school may be used for classes. The society also offers hands-on activity sessions such as churning butter, book binding, and candle dipping. The website offers instructions on using a drop spindle and recipes for both historical snacks and natural dye solutions.
When the Hampton Estate was finished in 1790, it was the largest home in the United States. Today, the home stands open as a historic house museum, and offers visitor a glimpse into the lives of America's elite at the beginning of the 19th century.
The home offers guided tours and exhibits on the home's history. The website offers a history of the home, visitor information, curriculum guides, teaching materials, and several photo galleries of the home and its grounds. In order to contact the park via email, use the "contact us" link located on the left side of the webpage.
Berkeley Plantation is the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison V (1726-1791), Governor of Virginia and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) or "Old Tippecanoe", ninth President of the United States. The plantation lands were also the site of the first official Thanksgiving in 1619 and of the composition of "Taps" in 1862. The structure itself is Georgian in style and dates to 1726. Collections include 18th-century decorative arts, Civil War artifacts, and paintings by Sydney King.
The plantation offers house tours led by guides in period dress, period rooms, exhibits, an audio-visual program, self-guided tours of the grounds, and guided student tours. Student tour topic options include the life of children in the 18th century, William Henry Harrison, and Civil War Major General George McClellan (1826-1885) and Harrison's Landing circa 1862.
Bloomington Restoration is largely dedicated to restoring and selling historical properties within Bloomington, Indiana. However, the organization does offer exhibits in their main office building, an 1892 Queen Anne residence.
The organization offers exhibits.