Columbia River Maritime Museum [OR]

Description

The Museum features interactive exhibits that combine history and technology. Visitors of all ages will experience what it is like to pilot a tugboat, participate in a Coast Guard rescue on the Columbia River Bar, and live in Astoria during the height of the salmon fishing. Huge windows make the Columbia River a living backdrop for classic fishing vessels and Coast Guard rescue craft. Visitors can experience first hand how the Bar Pilots work the dangerous wind and waves during a fierce winter storm in the award-winning orientation film "The Great River of the West." They can walk on board the bridge of a World-War-II-era US Navy Destroyer; see the world-class collection of maritime artifacts; and then walk out to the dock to explore the Lightship Columbia, a floating lighthouse.

The museum offers a short film, exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events and programs.

Richmond History Center and Wickham House [VA]

Description

The Center seeks to engage, educate, and challenge a diverse audience by collecting, preserving, and interpreting Richmond's history. Located in the heart of historic downtown Richmond, the Center presents a comprehensive program of exhibitions, tours, special events, research opportunities, school programs, and other public programs in order to engage the broadest audience in an ongoing dialogue about the significance and relevance of the city's history. The Center also maintains the 1812 Wickham House, where guests can explore aspects of life in the early 19th century. In the public first-floor rooms, ornate decorations helped the Wickhams and their slaves present a picture of leisure and refinement. Exhibited on the second floor are artifacts from the descendants of the family that first inhabited the house.

The center offers tours, exhibits, and educational and recreational events and programs; the house offers exhibits and tours.

Ulster County Historical Society and Bevier House Museum [NY]

Description

Built in the 1680s, on land originally settled by Native Americans, Bevier House today reflects the diverse history and culture of Ulster County. It displays exhibits on themes including women's history, slavery, immigration, Native Americans, and more.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, research library access, occasional lectures, and occasional living history events.

Cherokee County Historical Society and Crescent Farm Historical Center [GA]

Description

The Society operates the the Crescent Farm's Rock Barn, constructed in 1906 by Augustus Lee Coggins. It is believed to be the only existing rock barn in Georgia; today, it serves the Society as a meeting hall, exhibition center, and special events facility. The Society also maintains the Historic Courthouse Jail.

The barn offers exhibits; the jail offers tours by appointment; and the society offers research library access and recreational and educational events.

Chattanooga African American Museum [TN]

Description

The Museum operates as a source of curricula, historical references, creative works, and media about the African-American experience. The Museum maintains a collection of multimedia presentations, rare artifacts, African art, original sculptures, paintings, musical recordings, and local Black newspapers. Visitors can explore the history of Africans in Chattanooga, a region where most Africans were bought to be personal servants or laborers, rather than field hands.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Ganondagan State Historic Site [NY]

Description

Ganondagan is the site of a Native American community that was a flourishing, vibrant center for the Seneca people. Visitor to this site, where thousands of Seneca lived 300 years ago; can tour a full-size replica of a 17th-century Seneca Bark Longhouse; walk miles of self-guided trails; climb the mesa where a huge palisaded granary stored hundreds of thousands of bushels of corn; and learn about the destruction of Ganondagan, Town of Peace, in 1687.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events.

Tulsa Historical Society and Samuel Travis Museum [OK]

Description

The Society holds an extensive collection of resources on Tulsa's past, including nearly 5,000 still photographs, books, maps, documents, graphics, historical costumes, and architectural remnants, as well as fine and decorative arts. The Society is headquartered in the historic 1919 Samuel Travis Mansion off Peoria Avenue, where artifacts from the Society's collection are exhibited.

The society offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events and programs.

Roswell Historical Society [GA]

Description

The Society promotes the preservation of sources of information concerning the history of Roswell; collects and/or preserves historical sites, books, manuscripts, charts, maps, and other antiquities deemed worthy of a place in its archives; arouses in the citizens and friends of Roswell an interest in its history; and cooperates with other cultural and educational institutions in implanting in the present and future generations pride in Roswell's history and traditions. It offers guided walking tours of the Roswell Historic District, which interpret Roswell history and historic sites along the tour route. It also mounts periodic exhibits with historical themes. Exhibits feature materials held in the Society's Archives, including photographs, artifacts, textiles, vintage clothing, and documents or objects relating to Roswell history.

The society offers research library access, tours, lectures, occasional exhibits, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Northampton Historical Society and Museum and Education Center [MA]

Description

Historic Northampton is a museum of local history in the heart of the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts. Its collection of approximately 50,000 objects is a repository of Northampton and Connecticut Valley history from the Pre-Contact era to the present. The museum maintains a permanent exhibit chronicling the rich history of Northampton in its main gallery and features changing exhibitions in its rotating exhibit space. Historic Northampton constitutes a campus of three contiguous historic houses, including the 1813 Damon House, the 1719 Parsons House, and the 1796 Shepherd House, all on their original sites. The grounds themselves are part of an original Northampton homelot, laid out in 1654.

The museums offer exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events.

Patapsco Valley State Park [MD]

Description

In one of Maryland's first state parks (1907), the valley and its natural resources have been enjoyed by the Native Americans, explorers, settlers, and present-day citizens. With its source in Frederick and Carroll counties, the Patapsco serves the Port of Baltimore, and empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The Avalon Visitor Center houses exhibits spanning over 300 years of history along the Patapsco River. Housed in a 19th-century stone dwelling in the Avalon Area, the center includes a recreation of a 1930s forest warden's office. The park contains several historic sites, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Thomas Viaduct, remains of the Orange Grove Mill, the Avalon Iron and Nail Works, and Bloedes Dam.

The park offers exhibits and tours.