Slater Mill is a museum complex dedicated to bringing one of the most exciting and significant periods of American history to life. Visitors to the site experience a time when an America of small farmers and craftsmen was poised to become the industrial leader of the world. In the Slater Mill itself, visitors are surrounded by vintage textile machinery bathed in the light of large windows. With expert commentary from costumed interpreters they can imagine the lives of the people—many of them children—who made the early mills come alive.

In the nearby Wilkinson Mill they can feel the throb of the great 16,000-pound mill wheel, a replica of the original wheel that harnessed the power of the Blackstone River to make the era's finest tools. Children get up close and personal with early production processes as they provide the power and operate miniature machinery in the Apprentice Alcove. In the Sylvanus Brown House they can look back to a time when spinning, weaving, cooking, and quilting were the stuff of everyday life.

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

Visitors to this site can sift through the story of milling in Nebraska and tour a mill with its original 1880s equipment still intact. The Neligh Mill is a surviving reminder of the grist mills that once dotted Nebraska's landscape. Visitors can explore the mill, restored mill office, reconstructed flume and penstock, and the remains of the mill dam. Museum displays explain the history of the Neligh Mill and provide information about other water-powered mills once located throughout Nebraska and the Midwest.

The site offers exhibits and tours.

Architectural historians consider the Francis Costigan House a masterpiece of 19th-century design. The house is situated on a narrow city lot measuring only 22 feet in width. Costigan built this house in 1850 as his private residence. The brick two-story house is Greek Revival in style and has a portico with two fluted columns capped with Corinthian capitals. The portico is heavily adorned and includes a sliding pocket door entry. The ceiling of the portico is deeply coffered and heavily decorated. The interior of the house has a magnificent drawing room 30 feet long with bow end, twin fireplaces, and a high ceiling with deeply depressed panels, heavily ornamented with egg-and-dart moldings. The house shows Costigan's characteristically fine woodwork, including both curved and sliding doors and a stepladder staircase with a push gate at the top. This creative use of space reflects Costigan's skill and ingenuity as an architect to create such an elegant house in a limited space.

The house offers tours.

The Historic Burke Foundation Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Burke County, North Carolina. To this end, the society operates the Heritage Museum, 1812 McDowell House, and two historic cemeteries. The Heritage Museum, located within the circa 1835 Old Burke County Courthouse, contains exhibits on the courthouse, the court system, and other topics relevant to local history. The Federal-style McDowell House depicts 19th-century life. The Quaker Meadows Cemetery (in use 1767-1884) is the final resting place for nine families, including nine Revolutionary War soldiers.

The museum offers a 20-minute audiovisual presentation and exhibits. The McDowell House offers period rooms. The McDowell House requires appointments between September and March, and foundation permission is needed to enter the gated Quaker Meadows Cemetery.

In 1839 a Swiss immigrant named John Sutter received a land grant in the Sacramento Valley from the Mexican government. He used the land to create a flourishing agricultural empire and named it New Helvetia (New Switzerland.) This empire established Sacramento's earliest settlement and the first non-Indian settlement in California's Central Valley. In 1847, Sutter sent aid to the Donner Party, a group of immigrants trapped in a winter storm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Word spread and Sutter became known for his hospitality and for providing temporary refuge to travelers. This reputation made New Helvetia the destination for early immigrants to California. Less than a decade after they were established, Sutter's properties were overrun by gold seekers and the fort is all that remains of New Helvetia. It has been restored to its former state based on an 1847 map published in Darmstadt, Germany and is open daily for tours.

The park offers exhibits; tours; and recreational and educational events, including living history events.

The Stockton Springs Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Stockton Springs, Maine. To this end, the society operates a local history museum. The museum is located within the Colcord House, once home of Maine architect Joseph W. Thompson (1822-1891).

The society offers exhibits.

The Italianate structure known as the U. S. Grant Home was built in 1859–60 as a residence by Alexander J. Jackson of Galena. When Ulysses S. Grant returned to the city in 1865 as a Civil War hero, he was presented the house as part of the city's celebration. All of the rooms are decorated and furnished to represent the mid-1860s. Many of the furnishings belonged to the Grant family.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.

The Columbia Gorge Discovery Center presents the natural and social history of the Columbia River Gorge and Wasco County, Oregon. Topics addressed include the history of the land, settlement history and daily life in the area, the material goods carried by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their exploratory voyage across the country (1803-1806), and the Ice Age. The collections include more than 26,000 artifacts with particular strong showings of Native American baskets, padlocks, furniture, and farming equipment. The center is located on 50 acres of land.

The center offers exhibits, films, a children's discovery area, an interpretive trail, collections and research library access, an educator's resource center, an educational program on birds of prey, guided student tours ranging between 45 minutes and one hour in length, self-guided student tours, and traveling trunks. Reservations are required for class programs and tours. The website offers interactive activities and electronic field trips.

Visitors to this can enjoy a guided tour of the home of Iowa's first Territorial Governor, Robert Lucas, and Friendly Lucas, his wife. The seven-room Greek Revival house was constructed of local red brick. The National Society of Colonial Dames of America furnished the home with authentic period pieces, representative of the 1844–53 period.

A second website for the site can be found here.

The site offers tours.