Island County Historic Society and Museum [WA]

Description

The Island County Historic Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Island County, Washington from the Ice Age through the mid-20th century. Topics given particular emphasis include maritime history, Pacific Northwest Native American cultures, military history, and the settlers of 1853. Collections and archives number more than 19,000 items. The society operates a museum of local history, located on the former site of the 1870 Mother Fay’s Hotel.

The society offers exhibits, one-hour to 90-minute guided tours for students, library access, and research assistance. Research assistance requires payment of a fee. Two weeks advance notice is required for all visits by more than five individuals. Some student tours include pre-visit curriculum materials.

Hubbard County Historical Museum [MN]

Description

The Hubbard County Historical Museum presents the history of Hubbard County, Minnesota. Permanent exhibits include Native American life, farming, logging, quilts, and rooms depicting a pioneer cabin and a one-room schoolhouse. Collection strengths include Civil War artifacts and textiles.

The museum offers exhibits, period rooms, group programs, and tours.

Fort Assiniboine Historic Site, Northern Agricultural Research Center [MT]

Description

The Fort Assinniboine Historic Site preserves the site of what was once the largest military fort west of the Mississippi River, with 104 structures over 700,000 acres. Founded in 1879, the soldiers of Fort Assinniboine protected settlers from Sitting Bull's Lakota Sioux and other Native Americans. Other responsibilities included patrolling the U.S.-Canada border and preventing the Blackfoot Confederacy, Montana Indian Reservations, and Canadian Native Americans from acting against Euro-American settlers. The fort's location was selected as the nexus of several Native American trails. The site currently serves as an agricultural research center.

The site offers guided tours. Reservations are required for groups.

Suquamish Museum [WA]

Description

The Suquamish Museum presents the history and culture of the Puget Sound Salish Tribes—with particular emphasis granted the Suquamish Tribe. Collections include artifacts of daily life, more than 9,000 photographs and negatives, canoes, carvings, archival documents, and 150 oral histories.

The museum offers exhibits and guided tours. 48 hours notice is required for all guided tours.

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium [VT]

Description

The Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium presents conservation stewardship, natural history, and the relationship between humanity and our ecosystems. The environmental focus is on the Great Northern Forest. The museum is housed in a Victorian structure, and possesses the only public planetarium in Vermont. Over 400 species of plant can be viewed on site; and the museum collections consist of more than 175,000 specimens, artifacts, and archival documents.

The museum offers 50-minute planetarium presentations, exhibits, curriculum-based walking tours and educational programs for students, a student curator summer program, and archival access. Reservations are required for groups of 10 or more wishing to view the planetarium program. Archival access is by appointment only. The website offers monthly astronomical information; curriculum resource guides on Abenaki life, the Great Northern Forest, and regional history; and scavenger hunts for use at the museum.

Houmas House Plantation and Gardens [LA]

Description

The Houmas House Plantation and Gardens is a historic estate in the vicinity of New Orleans. The land was originally granted to the Houmas people, who then sold it to Maurice Conway and Alexander Latil in the 18th-century. From there, the site was developed into a sugar plantation, eventually becoming the nation's largest sugar producer. The Greek Revival primary residence on site today was completed in 1828. The plantation suffered economic failure during the Great Depression, and ceased to be a working agricultural site. More recently, the house has been seen in the 1964 Bette Davis film Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte and the televised competition Top Chef. Today, the house contains period furnishings.

The plantation offers guided tours, period rooms, and 38-acres of gardens.

Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois, and United Tribes of South Carolina

Description

Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois, and United Tribes of South Carolina is an organization which seeks to preserve and share the history and culture of the Native American peoples of South Carolina. To this end, the organization is politically active and educational.

The society offers outreach music, dancing, and performance presentations; storytelling; demonstrations; outreach cultural, historical, and archaeological lectures; hands-on educational outreach programs; and curriculum guides. All of the aforementioned offerings are designed for or can be tailored to student needs.

Pacific County Historical Society and Museum [WA]

Description

The Pacific County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Pacific County, Washington. To this end, the society operates the Pacific County Museum, the collections of which include more than 10,000 photographs, 1,500 artifacts, and historical documents. Areas of focus include Native American history, natural history, transportation, maritime history, daily life, and natural resources.

The museum offers exhibits and research collection access. Access to the research collection requires an appointment with the director.

Buel House State Historic Site

Description

Buel House, according to local tradition, was a significant site on the Cherokee Trail of Tears. The family of tanner Alexander Buel was said to have fed pumpkin to hungry Cherokee Indians being driven west by the federal government in 1838. The story is probably not true, however, since records indicate that the house was built in 1840. Still, it is a historically significant structure, having been continuously occupied by generations of one family for 146 years. There are indications that over the years Cherokee stopped at Golconda to trade while journeying to visit their former homes in Georgia. The Buel House, along with much of Golconda, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, as part of the Golconda Historic District. Situated at the base of the Ohio River bluffs, the two-story rectangular square-log structure has one-story additions on the east and north sides of the original building. Also on the site is a restored and furnished log cabin used for interpretive programs by the Pope County Historical Society.

The site offers tours and occasional recreational and educational programs.