San Benito County Historical Society, Museum, and Historical Park [CA]

Description

The San Benito County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of San Benito County, California. To this end, the society operates a museum within a 1909 Prairie Style home, originally built for pharmacist George Wapple. The society also operates a historical park which houses historic vehicles and a variety of historic buildings—three homes, a bar, a school, a print shop, a jail, and a barn.

The museum offers exhibits and tours. Arrangements must be made with the museum for all tours. The park offers exhibits and guided tours. Appointments are required for tours. The society also offers research library access the second Monday of every month.

Ellwood City Historical Society and Museum [PA]

Description

The Ellwood City Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Ellwood City, PA, site of the creation of the first American seamless steel tubes. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history. Collection highlights include a Railway Express Wagon; bench from the B and O Railroad waiting room; and Northwood glass, created between 1892 and 1896. Ellwood City's early population included many Italian and German immigrants.

The society offers exhibits.

Tannenbaum Historic Park [NC]

Description

The 7-acre Tannenbaum Historic Park preserves a portion of the farmstead of Joseph Hoskins, used to host British troops for the 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The site presents rural life prior to, during, and after the Revolutionary War via a heritage center, the 1813 Hoskins House, a restored 1830s barn, and a replica period blacksmith shop and kitchen.

The site offers period rooms and exhibits.

Bartram's Garden

Description

Visitors to Bartram's Garden experience America's oldest living botanical garden, a pastoral 18th-century homestead surrounded by the urban bustle of Philadelphia. They can visit the wildflower meadow, majestic trees, river trail, wetland, stone house and farm buildings overlooking the Schuylkill River, and the historic botanic garden of American native plants.

The site offers tours, educational programs, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Bellevue Historical Society and Museum [WA]

Description

The Bellevue Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Bellevue, Washington. To this end, the society operates a historical center within the Spanish Eclectic-style circa 1900 Winters House, once home to a wealthy bulb farmer. The center interprets both socio-cultural and natural local history.

The society offers exhibits. The website offers historic photographs.

Jack House and Gardens [CA]

Description

The 1880 Jack House and Gardens presents the home of San Luis Obispo, California's Jack family. The Jacks—ranchers, politicians, land developers, and bankers—lived in the home for more than 90 years, and the site is furnished with many of their personal belongings. The home is decorated to interpret Victorian daily life, and the gardens include period varieties of roses.

The house offers period rooms, guided tours, and self-guided gardens tours.

Grayson County Historical Society and Museum [KY]

Description

The Grayson County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Grayson County, Kentucky. To this end, the society operates a museum and research library within the circa 1814 Jack Thomas House. The society also operates the 1835 Buchanan Log Cabin, which houses home and farm tools. Highlights within the cabin include a handmade loom, over a century in age.

The society offers exhibits, tours of the Buchanan Log Cabin, and research library access.

Mount Clare Museum House [MD]

Description

The 1760 Georgian colonial Mount Clare Museum House once served as a plantation residence. The site was home to Charles Carrol (1737-1832), U.S. Senator and Barrister. The majority of the collection's 3,000 18th- and 19th-century pieces of furniture, artworks, decorative arts, and other artifacts are on display within the home. The site is primarily used to interpret 18th-century plantation life—that of the owners, slaves, and indentured servants.

The house offers an introductory video, tours, Scout and elementary school student tours with optional activities, outreach programs on 18th-century children's life for students, day camps, and research library access. Appointments are required for research library access and student programming. The second floor of the residence is not wheelchair accessible. The website offers the introductory video, activities, and lesson plans.

USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial [NC]

Description

Standing majestically across from downtown Wilmington, the battleship USS North Carolina beckons visitors to walk her decks and envision daily life as well as the fierce combat her veterans faced in World War II. The first fast battleship to join the American fleet during the war, she was then considered the world's greatest sea weapon. The North Carolina participated in every major naval offensive in the Pacific, earned 15 battle stars, and was home to 144 commissioned officers and 2,195 enlisted men.

The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events (including living history events).

Crowley Heritage Museum [CO]

Description

The Crowley Heritage Museum presents the history of Crowley County, Colorado, founded in 1911. At this time, recent irrigation developments had permitted Crowley County to become one of the most fruitful agricultural areas within Colorado. The area also displayed ethnic diversity—with farmers of German, Hispanic, and Japanese descent. Collection highlights include ranching artifacts and several types of barbed wire. The museum is located within a 1914 school building.

The museum offers exhibits.