The Apex Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Apex, NC. To this end, the society offers information on historical rural life. This information is located within the Maynard-Pearson House, which dates to the 1870s.
The society offers exhibits, walking tours for students, educational sessions, and tours of the Maynard-Pearson House.
The Manchester Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Manchester, Connecticut. To this end, the society operates the Old Manchester Museum, located within the 1859 Cheney School; the 1798 Cheney Homestead, home to the founding family of the Mt. Nebo Silk Company; and a reconstruction of the 1751 Keeney Schoolhouse. The Manchester area was originally inhabited by the Podunk. English settlers arrived circa 1783.
The society offers exhibits, lectures, period rooms, school tours, walking tours of the Cheney Mills area, and archival access. The Cheney Homestead and Keeney Schoolhouse are open by appointment. The website offers a coloring book and historical photographs.
The 1905 Anderson House is a Beaux Arts mansion, which served as the residence of Larz Anderson III (1866-1937), diplomat and Ambassador to Japan, and his wife Isabel (1876-1948), author of travel memoirs, poetry, and family histories. The interior favors English and Italian elements. The collection strength is artifacts of the Revolutionary War. The house is the headquarters of the Society of Cincinnati, a society interested in Revolutionary War history.
The house offers period rooms, exhibits, guided tours, and monthly artifact presentations and talks. Reservations are required for groups of ten or more. Tours are offered in several languages, and can be tailored to specific interests given advance notice.
The Burlingame Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Burlingame and Hillsborough, CA.
The society offers a two-hour walking tour of historic Burlingame for local third grade students, a local history class for teens and adults, exhibits, and house history research assistance. Exhibits are typically located within the Burlingame City Hall or the Burlingame Public Library. The website offers a memory board and a virtual exhibit on the history of Burlingame's grocery stores.
The Point Richmond History Association seeks to preserve and share the history of Port Richmond, the original neighborhood of Richmond, California. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history.
The museum offers exhibits. The website offers historic photographs.
Ker Place is a circa 1800 Federal-style residence, now serving as a historic house museum. The museum provides information on the history of Virginia's Eastern shore. This structure serves as the headquarters of and is operated by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society.
The society and museum offer guided tours, an archaeology lab, period rooms, and history camps.
The Yolo County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Yolo County, California. To this end, the society operates the Spring Lakes School and the Hattie Weber Museum. The school is used to introduce students to education and the school experience circa 1890. The Hattie Weber Museum presents the local history of Davis, California and the surrounding areas. The museum is named after Davisville's first paid librarian, who began her career in 1906.
The society offers educational programs for students in the Spring Lakes School, and exhibits and school tours in the Hattie Weber Museum.
Kensington Mansion is an 1854 Italianate Revival residence furnished with Victorian decorative arts. The grounds include the original kitchen building. Jacob Stroyer's (1848-1909) biography My Life in the South, published in 1879, described his time as a slave on Headquarters Plantation, site of Kensington Manor.
The mansion offers period rooms and guided tours. Reservations are required for groups of 10 or more.
The Hazelwood Historic House Museum is a Greek Revival residence furnished in the 1880 through 1899 Victorian styles. Home owner Morgan L. Martin (1805-1887) served as state convention president at the time the Wisconsin state constitution was drafted.
The museum offers house tours and neighborhood tours. Reservations are required for groups of 10 or more. Tour options include added refreshments.
The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center depicts 18th- and 19th-century rural life in the state of Maine. Norlands was originally the Washburn family home. This family included a Senator, Secretary of State, congressmen, governors, and founders of the Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal Flour Company. Structures include a one-room schoolhouse, mansion, meeting house, and library.
The site offers living history interpreters, period rooms, guided building tours, self-guided grounds tours, curriculum-based interactive programs for students, outreach programs for schools, hands-on activities, overnight programs, and picnic tables.