Howard County Historical Society and Museums [NE]

Description

The Howard County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Howard County, Nebraska. To this end, the society operates the Saint Paul Transportation Museum and Village Depot, the Veterans Museum, the Historical Village, and the Gruber House. The transportation museum is located within a 1908 railway depot. The village consists of a historic schoolhouse, containing local history exhibits; a historic store, containing frontier life exhibits; a forge, complete with blacksmithing demonstrations and exhibits; and the depot, which contains the transportation museum. The 1908 Gruber House contains the Veterans Museum, as well as exhibits about Native American life, Howard County religion, Victorian era life, and Jean Catharine Potts. Potts (1910-1999) was a nationally recognized mystery author. Her works include Go, Lively Rose and The Evil Wish.

The society offers period rooms, exhibits, and blacksmithing demonstrations.

Denison Homestead Museum [CT]

Description

The Denison Homestead Museum preserves the 1717 home of George Denison, located on land given to his grandfather for his service as captain of the local militia. Pequotsepos Manor presents the history of the Denison family. Periods depicted include the 1730s, 1775-1785, the 1830s, 1890s, and 1930s. The grounds boast period gardens.

The museum offers period rooms, guided tours, a video or presentation on Frederick Douglass, archaeological digs for students, guided tours for students, guided activities for students, Scout programs, trails, gardens, outreach activities, and a picnic table. Please contact the museum to ascertain which programs will be offered at the time you wish to visit.

Hat Museum [OR]

Description

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.

Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park [AZ]

Description

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.

Fulton County Historical Society and Museums [IN]

Description

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.

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum [AL]

Description

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 [IL]

Description

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.

Boyds Historical Society and the Boyds Negro School [MD]

Description

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.

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park [NY]

Description

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.