The Nishna Heritage Museum primarily presents the history of the Oakland, Iowa area. Additional displays are global in scope. Exhibits include quilts and quilting, historical tools, music playing devices, and dairy equipment. Highlights include an early 20th-century tire changer, Edison phonographs, a butter press, and a switch board.
The museum offers period rooms and exhibits.
The Lorenzo State Historic Site consists of Lorenzo, the 1807 neoclassical residence of five generations of the the Lincklaen or Ledyard family. The residence was built for John Lincklaen who founded the village of Cazenovia, New York; and worked for the Holland Land Company. The Rippleton Schoolhouse is available for educational programming.
The site offers audio-visual programs, costumed interpreters, gardens, guided tours, exhibits, educational services, interpretive signs, archival access, and a picnic area.
The Manship House Museum preserves the Gothic Revival "cottage villa" of Charles Henry Manship (1812-1895), mayor of Jackson, Mississippi during the Civil War and ornamental painter by trade. Restored to period, the residence serves as a site to share the history of the Manship family. The museum offers annual exhibits about weddings and mourning customs circa 1888.
The museum offers exhibits and period rooms.
The 1881 Mueller-Schmidt House once housed the family of John Mueller, a German immigrant, cobbler, saloon proprietor, and rancher. The home presents pioneer-era life.
The house offers period rooms and exhibits.
Fallsington, founded in the 18th century, consists of 18th- through 20th-century residential, commercial, and community buildings. The site remains largely unaltered by area development, and served as an active Quaker community until the 1950s. Interpretation focuses on local and architectural history, as well as material culture. The site includes more than 90 historic structures, not all of which are open to the public.
Historic Fallsington offers guided walking tours of the square and three buildings, self-guided tours, period rooms, programs for students, a Scout summer camp, and research assistance. Building access is not available during self-guided tours. Student programs year-round and guided tours between mid October and mid May are available by appointment only. A fee is charged for requested research.
The East Lyme Historical Society operates the circa 1805 Little Boston Schoolhouse and circa 1660 Thomas Lee House. The latter is listed separately within this database. The schoolhouse remained in use through 1922, and has now been restored to its early 20th-century appearance. A barn with historical exhibits is located nearby.
The society offers a colonial day for fourth grade students, lectures, period rooms, exhibits, and picnic tables. The sites are open June through Labor Day, although tours may be arranged for other times of the year.
The Washington County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Washington County, MD. To this end, the society operates a museum within the Miller House, a late Federal townhouse dating to between 1818 and 1823, and the 1904 two-room Beaver Creek School. Exhibits in the Miller House include period rooms set to 1850s through 1870s appearances, clocks, dolls, Shenandoah Valley pottery, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and the C and O Canal. The house grounds also include a library and gardens. The Beaver Creek School contains period school, workshop, parlor, and cobbler shop settings; vintage toys; costumes and uniforms; an 1840s hand crank organ; and other artifacts.
The society offers exhibits, period rooms, a garden, and research library access.
Waterloo Village takes the visitor through time from a 400-year old Lenape (Delaware) Indian village to a bustling port along the once prosperous Morris Canal. This early 19th-century restored village contains a working mill complex with gristmills and sawmills, a general store, blacksmith shop, and several historic houses.
The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Catawba County Historical Association is dedicated to preserving the history of Hickory, North Carolina, and the surrounding area. The association owns and operates two historic house museums, the historic Murray's Mill, and a museum of local history which is housed in the grand 1924 courthouse.
The association offers guided tours of their historic properties, a wealth of exhibits in the society's museum and special events. The website offers visitor information, a brief history of Hickory, detailed histories of the society's historic structures, and an events calendar.
The Miamisburg Historical Society is dedicated preserving the historical heritage of Miamisburg, Ohio, and the surrounding area. The society owns and operates three local historic structures, the Daniel Gebhart Tavern Museum, which serves as a local history museum, the Market Square Building, which serves as the society headquarters and as the location for the society's research room, and Jacob Kercher Pioneer Home, which is open as a historic house museum.
The society offers guided tours of all three of their historic structures, along with special events. The website offers an events calendar, a brief history of the society, photo galleries of Miamisburg and the society's historic structures, and visitor information.