The Selfridge Military Air Museum is located on the Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan, and is home to an impressive collection of military air technology. In addition, the museum is home to a collection of air combat memorabilia, including newspapers, patches, and photographs.
The museum offers guided tours and exhibits. The website offers visitor information, photographs of museum displays, and a history of the museum.
The History Center of Olmstead County presents the history of Olmstead County, Minnesota. To this end, the center operates as a museum. The museum includes rooms devoted to the decorative arts; a hands-on children's cabin; and exhibits on topics which include IBM, St. Mary's Hospital, the 1883 Rochester tornado, and historical medicine. Artifact collections include textiles, military, decorative arts, Native American, agricultural and mechanical, and medical items. The center also operates the Mayowood Estate historic house museum. Erected in 1911 as the home of Dr. Charles H. Mayo, cofounder of the Mayo Clinic, Mayowood now contains period rooms.
The museum offers exhibits, educational programs, hands-on activities, museum tours, traveling trunks, and library access. Reservations are required for tours. The center also organizes baseball games, played in 1860s style. The Mayowood Estate offers period rooms and guided tours. The website offers virtual exhibits.
Bannack State Park is the site of Montana's first major gold discovery on July 28, 1862. This strike set off a massive gold rush that swelled Bannack's population to over 3,000 by 1863. As the value of gold steadily dwindled, Bannack's bustling population was slowly snuffed out. There are over 50 buildings that line Main Street with their historic log and frame structures that recall Montana's formative years.
A second website for the site can be found here.
The site offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Society was founded in 1937. Its current museum holdings include over 150,000 items of Lyon County history spanning from 1865 to the present.
The society offers lectures, research library access, and educational programs; the museum offers exhibits.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station located in Silver Spring, Maryland, is one of the few carefully preserved railroad station in the state of Maryland. The station was designed in the Colonial Revival style of architecture, and today stands much as it did during its service in the mid 20th century.
The station offers guided tours, special events, and is available for rent. The website offers a history of the station and visitor information.
Visitors can tour the showplace home of William Allen White, nationally known newspaperman and author. From the 1890s through World War II, White influenced state and national politics through his writings from the heartland town of Emporia. White looms particularly large in the politics of his home state, debating the Populists of the 1890s and battling against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
The site offers tours, exhibits, and educational and recreational events.
The Port Orford Lifeboat Station was constructed in 1934 in order to provide lifesaving service to the southern portion of the Oregon Coast. The station was close in 1970 when the advent of helicoptor search and rescue made the lifeboat station obsolete. Today, the lifeboat station is open to visitors year round, and features a new visitor center.
The station offers exhibits and interpretive activities in the visitor center, along with a variety of outdoor activities including hiking, swimming, fishing, and a small beach. The website offers a history of the station along with visitor information.
Visit the home of respected WWII reporter Ernie Pyle at his childhood home and farm. The site has a new visitor's center and a host of memorabilia from the journalist's life.
School tours are available by appointment and school programs that meet Indiana State standards for grades K-high school. Teacher packets are also avaliable.
The Bayside Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Bayside and Queens, New York, as well as neighboring communities. To this end, the society operates a number of exhibits within the 1887 Gothic Revival Army Officer's Club. The society also maintains the Lawrence Cemetery, a family plot with burials dating between 1832 and 1939. Individuals of note interred on site include Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, Mayor of the New York City between 1834 and 1837; County Judge Effingham Lawrence and his Native American servant Lawrence Moccasin; and Colonel Frederick Newbold Lawrence, president of the New York Stock Exchange between 1882 and 1883.
The society offers exhibits, tours of the Officer's Club, educational programs, and archival access. Lawrence Cemetery is open by appointment only. The second floor of the Officer's Club is not wheelchair accessible. The website offers virtual exhibits.
The North Carolina Railroad Museum is an outdoor museum consisting of exhibits of historic railroad equipment. Many of the artifacts in the collection were made and/or used in North Carolina. Collection highlights include a 1/24-scale model railroad with over 1,000 feet of track; eight stationary historic locomotives, dating from 1941 to 1953; and eight operating historic railway cars.
The museum offers exhibits, locomotive rides, and a barbecue vendor.