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.

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.

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.

Visitors to the site can receive an interactive history lesson at the visitor's center, or just walk the Fort and ramparts for a view of the Thames River. The fort contains informative markers and displays, a touchable cannon and artillery crew display, and gun emplacements. The fort interior features 19th-century restored living quarters, a mock laboratory, and a 1950s era office furnished to resemble a research and development lab at the facility. The visitor center contains state-of-the-art multimedia theaters, computer touch-screen interactive exhibits, 3-D models, and extensive graphics and text panels. The center depicts over 225 years of military history and technological advances from the Revolutionary War to the Cold War. Some of the main display themes include the September 6, 1781 attack by the British under the command of Benedict Arnold, the U-boat menace during World War II, and the anti-submarine efforts during the Cold War.

A second website for the site, maintained by the Friends of Fort Trumbull, can be found here.

The site offers short films, exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.

The Park Forest Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Park Forest, IL. To that end, the society operates a museum and archival center. Park Forest was built as a community for soldiers returning from World War II; and, as such, was the first fully planned suburb to be developed after the war. The museum is located in an original townhouse, and is furnished to a 1948 through 1953 appearance. A portion of the home serves as a re-created school, since townhouses were used as such until permanent educational facilities could be built.

The society offers educational programs, lectures, and outreach speakers. The museum offers guided tours. The archives include circulating oral history transcriptions.

From 1892 through 1954, the CRRNJ Terminal stood with the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island to unfold one of this nation's most dramatic stories: the immigration of northern, southern, and eastern Europeans, among others, into the United States. After being greeted by the Statue of Liberty and processed at Ellis Island, these immigrants purchased tickets and boarded trains at the Terminal to their new homes.

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

The Brucemore Mansion, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was home to three wealthy Iowa families, the Sinclair, Douglas, and Hall families. The home was built in 1884, and today stands as a historic house museum.

The home offers exhibits in the attached visitor center, guided tours, field trip programs, special events including concerts and interpretive activities, and summer camps. The website offers visitor information, a history of the home, a collection of essays for students, and an events calendar. In order to contact the mansion via email, use the "contact us" link located at the top of the webpage.

The East Linn Museum presents the history of the Sweet Home, Oregon area through period rooms and exhibits of vernacular items. Collection highlights include historical cameras, telephones, and firearms. The period covered extends from 1852 to present.

The museum offers period rooms and exhibits.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, writer, and editor and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site preserves Sandburg's residence, 65,000 artifacts utilized to interpret his life, and Mrs. Sandburg's goat dairy. The dairy currently raises goats representative of the three breeds historically present.

The site offers a 14-minute video, 30-minute guided house tours, period rooms, live performances of Sandburg's works, a standards-based education program for middle school students, and Junior Ranger activities.