The Hat Museum presents over 900 hats. Collections include modern hats, novelty hats, men's hats, and hats from between 1880 and 1980. Historical hats have been selected to exemplify the most characteristic styles and details of their day. The 1910 Arts and Crafts Ladd-Reingold House, in which the museum is located, was the home of an early 1900s milliner.
The museum offers exhibits. Reservations are required.
The Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park preserves Arizona Territory's first prison, in use between 1876 and 1909. Visitors can see the solitary chamber and original strap iron holding cells. The site presents information on the prison itself, the prison lifestyle, and a selection of the 3,069 prisoners to have been housed there. The most common crime represented within the prison body was grand larceny. The site offered prisoners a library, an electrically powered ventilation system, and electric lighting.
The site offers exhibits, interpretive signs, junior ranger activities, and a picnic area.
The Fulton County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Fulton County, Indiana. To this end, the society operates a museum; a 1924 round barn, containing historic farming implements; a living history village; and a research library. Exhibit topics include music, art, living conditions between 1910 and 1935, toys, medicine, Native Americans, education, the military, recreation, trade, religion, and the circus.
The society also manages another site (www.potawatomi-tda.org) which shows the Potawatomi Trail of Death 1838 diary, photos of all 78 historical markers and of the many Potawatomi who had ancestors on the Trail of Death from Indiana to Kansas, exhibits, period rooms, a tour and scavenger hunt for students, and research library access.
The F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum presents the works and lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) and his wife, Zelda (1900-1948). The museum is located in the couple's last remaining residence, which they inhabited between 1931 and 1932. Fitzgerald is best known for his novel The Great Gatsby. The couple was considered by the press of their day to be a perfect embodiment of the Jazz Age.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Arlington Heights Historical Museum presents the history of Arlington Heights, Illinois. The complex includes the 1882 Victorian Frederick W. Müller home, a coach house, a 1906 soda factory, the 1908 Arts and Crafts Banta House, and a replica 1830s cabin. The Banta House displays dolls and dollhouses.
The museum offers exhibits, dioramas, period rooms, period carpentry and blacksmith shops, research library access, guided tours, self-guided tours, children's summer programs, seven educational programs for students, youth programs, a Junior Historian club, and Scout programs. Groups of 6 or more interested in a tour must make an appointment. Period rooms are located in the log cabin and Müller House. The library is located in the soda factory. The website offers children's activities.
The Boyds Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Boyds, Maryland. To this end, the society operates the Boyds Negro School. This school served the local African American population between 1895 and 1936.
The society offers tours of the Boyds Negro School. The school is open the last Sunday of each month and by appointment. School groups are welcome.
The Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park preserves the 1920s estate of the Coe family. The grounds consist of 400 acres of gardens, trails, woodlands, and greenhouse displays. Coe Hall is a Tudor Revival residence, and is furnished in the style of the 1920s.
The site offers period rooms, gardens, self-guided tours, guided tours of the grounds and of Coe Hall, hiking trails, interpretive signs, exhibits, educational programs, and group tours. Coe Hall is open between April and September.
The Brockton Historical Society operates several museums relevant to the history of Brockton, Massachusetts. These include a fire museum; shoe museum; and a historic residence, known as The Homestead. The 1767 Homestead has not been restored to a specific period's appearance. It contains a local history library, as well as exhibits on Thomas Edison, shoes, and heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano (1923-1969). The shoe museum contains shoes from throughout U.S. history, as well as several pairs worn by celebrities. The Brockton Fire Museum is listed separately within this database.
The society offers exhibits. The website offers video clips of Rocky Marciano and Marvin Hagler and historic images.
The Burwell School Historic Site presents the lives of the individuals who lived within and near Burwell School during the antebellum years and the Civil War. The site includes a circa 1821 residence; circa 1837 brick necessary; and an academy for girls, the Burwell School. The school functioned between 1837 and 1857. The site was also home to more than 30 slaves, including Elizabeth Hobbes Keckly (1818-1907), who would become a close friend of Mary Todd Lincoln. Keckly eventually wrote Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years as a Slave and Four Years in the White House.
The site offers 45-minute guided tours, self-guided garden tours, a fourth-grade curriculum-based program, outreach programs for schools, a Scout program, workshops about Keckly, research library access, and research assistance.
Pella Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the unique historical heritage of Pella, IA. Pella is known for its rich Dutch heritage. The society's main function is to operate the Pella Historical Village, a collection of historic house museums and the Vermeer historic Dutch windmill.
The society offers interpretive events, guided tours, special events, and hands-on workshops. The website offers visitor information, an events calendar, educational resources including lesson plans, and a history of the town.