The Honesdale Fire Museum hosts an impressive collection of fire equipment and memorabilia which is centered around the 1874 Silsby steamer no. 483 and its replacement, the 1936 Seagrave triple combination pumper. Displays also include other pieces of historic firefighting memorabilia, including photographs and helmets.
The museum offers both public and private guided tours by appointment. The website offers basic visitor information.
The Center showcases the semipermanent exhibit "Life on the Edge," featuring the history of Sherburne County, as well as rotating exhibits; the outdoors Legacy Trail leads past local historic structures.
The center offers exhibits, tours, research library access, lectures, and educational and recreational events.
The High Plains Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Northern Weld County, Colorado. To this end, the society operates The Northern Drylanders Museum. Located within the 1934 Old Nunn Municipal Hall, the museum presents information and artifacts of local historical interest.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, lectures, and outreach presentations. Reservations are required for group tours.
Visitors can explore Trinidad’s past and its place in the American West at the Trinidad History Museum. The museum features several attractions on one block in Trinidad's acclaimed historic district. The Baca House and Kitchen Garden is a unique adobe home which evokes the lifestyle of community leaders Dolores and Felipe Baca and their children. Heirloom herbs and vegetables thrive in the garden. The Bloom Mansion and Historic Gardens preserve the Victorian home of banker and cattle baron Frank Bloom. The Santa Fe Trail Museum is a historic adobe building housing family heirlooms, commercial goods, and photographs that tell the stories of the people and events of Trinidad's past.
The museum's sites offer exhibits, tours, and educational programs.
The Oakleigh Historic House presents society, working class, and servant life in the mid 20th century along the Gulf Coast. The Greek Revival structure was built circa 1833 as the home of James W. Roper, cotton factor. The 1850 Cook's house served as the property slave quarters, and the 1850 Cox-Deasy House presents local history circa World War II.
The site offers period rooms and guided tours of the main house.
The Chatham Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Chatham, Massachusetts. To that end, the society operates a museum located within the 1752 Atwood House. The site includes nine exhibit galleries, period rooms, the mid-20th-century Nickerson North Beach Camp, bells from the Chatham school, and a Wampanoag canoe. Collections include more than 3,000 artifacts, 2,500 photographs, and 800 books.
The society offers guided tours of the Atwood House. The website offers images of collection highlights.
The Glendale Police Museum presents the history of law enforcement in Glendale, Arizona. Collection highlights include a 1989 Kawasaki Police 1000 motorcycle.
The museum offers exhibits and tours.
Rural Hill consists of the 265-acre farmlands of John Davidson, Revolutionary War soldier and son of Scottish immigrants. The site contains a reconstruction of the Davidson home, as well as two historic schoolhouses (built 1890 and circa 1898) and the original ash house, chicken shed, granary, barn, well house, and smoke house. Today, the property operates as a working farm.
The center offers educational programs, walking trails, hayrides, and guided tours on period farm life and Rural Hill's involvement in the American Revolution. The website offers activities and suggested reading for educators.
The Museum at Prophetstown presents the history of Indiana's Wabash River Valley through the stories of a 1920s farmstead, a Native American settlement, and the prairie itself. The working farmstead includes a replica Sears Roebuck and Company Catalog farmhouse. The Shawnee brothers Tenskwautawaw and Tecumseh founded the 1808 Native American settlement in Prophetstown as capital of a new Native American Confederation. The settlement was attacked in 1811 by U.S. forces; and today displays replicas of the Council House, medicine lodge, "chief's" cabin, and granary.
The museum offers workshops; guided tours of the farmstead; period rooms; summer camps; and a program for boys from Cary County, allowing them to work with draft horses. The website offers listings of relevant state educational standards.
The Summit Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Summit County, Colorado.
The society offers education programs and historic home and mine tours.