The Center for Orange County History [VA]

Description

The Center for Orange County History seeks to preserve and share the history of Orange County, Virginia. To this end, the society offers a library with over 3,000 volumes, as well as maps, photographs, and information on families, buildings, sites, and events.

The center offers a library and archive. The website offers historical diary excerpts and a selection of historical photographs.

Wilderness Road State Park [VA]

Description

The 310-acre Wilderness Road State Park commemorates the route which Daniel Boone (1734-1820) carved along a buffalo trace through the Cumberland Gap and into Kentucky in 1775, effectively opening the western frontier. Items of note within the park are a visitor center and Martin's Station, a replica of a 1775 colonial frontier fort which is located in the position of the original.

The park offers an introductory film; exhibits; costumed interpreters; educational programs; living history discussions; a raid re-enactment; and The Indian Ridge Trail, a self-guided interpretive walk.

Frontier Historical Society [CO]

Description

The Frontier Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history.

The society offers museum exhibits and guided tours, guided walking tours of historic downtown Glenwood Springs, archives, slide shows, historical presentations, and traveling trunks for elementary education.

African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey

Description

The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey presents the 20th century experience of the national African American community. The collection consists of over 3,000 artifacts, including artworks and decorative items, depicting African Americans.

The museum offers educational programs and a traveling museum which visits schools upon request. Call prior to visitation as the exhibit may be traveling.

Simpson County Archives & Museum [KY]

Description

The Simpson County Archives & Museum preserves court documents, tax records, marriage records, wills, deeds, family histories, old scrapbooks, Bibles, manuscripts, census records, funeral home records, local papers, maps, photographs, obituaries, and memorabilia for the Simpson, Allen, Logan, and Warren Counties of Kentucky. The organization is housed in a historical jail and jailer's residence.

The organization offers guided tours and a grant application.

Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation [OH]

Description

The Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation seeks to bolster the vitality of Cleveland, Ohio's previous commercial center. Prior to the 1850s, this area served as Cleveland's residential section. Over time, it shifted to hold warehouses, small businesses, and offices for the iron, coal, railway, and shipping industries. By the 1920s, this section of the city had grown to include a garment district, rivaling the garment production of New York City at that time.

The Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation offers guided and self-guided neighborhood walking tours.

Northern Indiana Center for History [IN]

Description

The Northern Indiana Center for History includes a 38-room Victorian mansion and gardens, a cottage interpreted with 1930s interiors, a children's museum, and galleries covering local and Notre Dame history. The mansion, known as Copshaholm, was owned by J.D. Oliver, president of Oliver Chilled Plow Works. Built in 1895-96, the architecture is Romanesque Queen Anne in style, and the interior furnishings are original. Highlights include works by Bartolozzi (1725-1815), famed Italian engraver, and American sculptor Lorado Taft (1860-1936). The Dom Robotnika, erected in the 1870s, is an example of quarters like those in which factory workers from the Oliver Chilled Plow Works might have lived. Other offerings include archives, the Kidsfirst Children's Museum, the Ernestine M. Raclin Gallery of Notre Dame History, and the Voyages Gallery of Local History.

Copshaholm offers an introductory video and guided tours. The society also offers a variety of themed educational programs, covering the fur trade, Civil War, and cabin life in the 1830s. Tours are also available in the Dom Robotnika, the Worker's Home; the Kidsfirst Children's Museum; Voyages: Exploring the History of the St. Joseph River Valley; and the Ernestine M. Raclin Gallery of Notre Dame History. School programs and tours meet state educational standards.

Gresham Historical Society [OR]

Description

The Gresham Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Gresham, Oregon and the surrounding area. To this end, they operate three facilities—The Gresham History Museum, The Pauletta Ewalt Memorial Brick Wall which stands on the site of the old Gresham Pioneer Church, and a replica of Linnemann Station.

The museum offers exhibits.