This early Georgian-styled mansion was built circa 1734 for Dr. Joshua Babcock, who was Westerly's first physician and a Chief Justice of Rhode Island. It was Westerly's first Post Office, and later became the home of Orlando Smith, discoverer of Westerly Granite in 1846.
The house offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.
Featuring 18th- and early 19th-century history, North Carolina's second oldest town Edenton was one of the fledgling nation's chief political, cultural, and commercial centers. The state's first colonial capital, it was established in the late 17th century and incorporated in 1722. Once its second largest port, Edenton provided slaves with a means of escape via the Maritime Underground Railroad before Emancipation. Today it features an extensive historic district with architectural styles spanning 250 years, such as the 1767 Chowan County Courthouse National Historic Landmark. Tours include historic sites such as the 1736 St. Paul's Church; the 1758 Cupola House; the 1782 Barker House; the Courthouse; and the 1773 James Iredell House.
The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site commemorates the site of a British outpost during the revolutionary war and was also the site of one of the worst American defeats during the war. The park offers an impressive variety of activities for visitors, and is home to six historic structures, all of which are open to the public and offer exhibits and/or period rooms.
The park offers exhibits, guided tours, special events such as re-enactments and workshops, and hiking trails. The website offers visitor information, historical information regarding Camden, and a schedule of events.
The Hurley Heritage Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Hurley, New York. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history, located within the 1790 Col. Jonathan Elmendorf House. Main Street is a Historic Landmark District, containing six of Hurley's stone houses built between the late 1600s and 1818; and is used during guided tours to discuss local Dutch heritage.
The society offers exhibits, monthly guided walking tours of Main Street, guided group tours of individual stone houses, and a self-guided driving tour of the area. Reservations are required for stone house tours.
Long Pond Ironworks was founded in 1766 by German ironmaster Peter Hasenclever. Hasenclever brought 500 ironworkers and their families from Germany to build an ironworks "plantation," including a furnace, forge, houses, shops, and farms. A dam at "Long Pond" (Greenwood Lake) on the upper Wanaque River provided the hydropower to operate a blast for the furnace and a large forge. Two more furnaces were constructed in the 1860s. Operations at the site ceased in 1882 due to the industry-wide conversion to anthracite furnaces using Pennsylvania coal. The remnants of the ironmaking industrial structures at this site date from the 18th and 19th centuries. Furnaces, casting house ruins, charging areas, ice houses, waterwheels, and other structures are a part of the remains. The area is currently undergoing restoration: one waterwheel has been reconstructed and several houses stabilized. The "Old Country Store" has been renovated and now houses the Long Pond Ironworks Museum. The original Village of Hewitt grew up around the 19th-century iron enterprise. This settlement included a church, a store/post office, schoolhouses, and dwellings and outbuildings for workers and managers. Many of these cultural resources remain intact or as ruins.
The website of the Friends of Long Pond Ironworks can be found here.
The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Schoharie County Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation of the historical heritage of Schoharie County, NY. The society is headquartered in the Old Stone Fort, a Revolutionary War battle site that is currently operated jointly by Schoharie County and the historical society. The society owns six other buildings in the museum complex.
From the society's website: "The Society maintains a research library and a local genealogy collection, publishes a semi-annual local history magazine, and offers a full calendar of educational and recreational events." The website offers visitor information, an events calendar, a brief history of the Old Stone Fort, and information regarding society programs.
Rocky Mount is a large log house built by William Cobb around 1772. Cobb was one of the first permanent settlers of the western frontier that became the State of Tennessee in 1796. His home became the temporary capitol of the Southwest Territory during Governor William Blount's residence with the Cobb family between 1790 and 1792. Today, visitors step back into the year 1791 and gain an appreciation for the daily lifestyle of a frontier family. First-person costumed interpreters invite guests into the restored house and dependencies as guests of the Cobb family. Visitors discover members of the Cobb family, who perform daily chores in the kitchen, barn, weaving cabin, and gardens. As the seasons change, visitors encounter work in the field crops area and can view farm animals.
A second website for the museum can be found here.
The museum offers tours, exhibits, demonstrations, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The 45-acre Historic Hope Plantation preserves the circa 1803 home of North Carolina Governor David Stone (1770-1818). The main residence is Federal and Georgian in style, and contains both original and reproduction decorative arts. The plantation also contains the 1763 "hall and parlor" King-Bazemore House. The site depicts agricultural life between 1760 and 1840 in eastern North Carolina.
The plantation offers period rooms, exhibits, collections and research library access, nature trails, picnic facilities, and an annual fourth grade living history program. The website offers floor plans, fourth- and eighth-grade curricula, and a lesson plan.
When Joseph Priestley (17331804) is remembered today, it is usually for his 1774 discovery, in England, of oxygen. Few know he was a noted theologian, political progressive, and prolific author whose scientific contributions include the development of the carbonation process, the identification of carbon monoxide, and early experiments in electricity. He counted Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Watt among his friends. Yet Priestley was also a controversial figure whose views were so odious to some of his countrymen that his house, Fair Hill in Birmingham, was burned in a riot, and he and his family left England. Priestley spent the last 10 years of his life in Northumberland, PA, where he continued his work in science, religion, and education. But even in this democratic republic his liberal ideas were frequently received with intolerance, and the peace that he so ardently desired was often elusive. Today, the Joseph Priestley House is an historic site that preserves and interprets the contributions and significance to American history of Joseph Priestley, noted English theologian, educator, natural philosopher, and political theorist.
The house offers a short film, exhibits, tours, educational programs, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is located within Pennsylvania's 2,606-acre Ridley Creek State Park. The 112-acre Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation itself is a living history farm, depicting life in the region circa 1760 through 1790. Demonstrations include food preservation, open hearth cooking, fiber processing, and farming.
The park offers 12 miles of trails, gardens, and 14 picnic areas. The plantation offers costumed living history interpreters; demonstrations; educational programs which meet state history, geography, environment, and ecology standards; workshops; lecture, demonstration, and/or hands-on outreach programs; summer camps; Scout programs; and group tours. Reservations are required for group tours, and on site educational programs are available between April and mid-November only.