Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park [FL]

Description

In 1836, the Second Seminole War swept away the prosperous Bulow Plantation where the Bulow family grew sugar cane, cotton, rice, and indigo. Ruins of the former plantation—a sugar mill, a unique spring house, several wells, and the crumbling foundations of the plantation house and slave cabins—show how volatile the Florida frontier was in the early 19th century. Today, a scenic walking trail leads visitors to the sugar mill ruins, listed on the National Register of Historic Sites. The park has picnic facilities and an interpretive center that tells the plantation's history.

The park offers exhibits

Allaire State Park and Village [NJ]

Description

Allaire State Park houses Allaire Village, a well-preserved early 19th-century ironmaking town with a general store, blacksmith shop, carpenter's shop, owner's house, foreman's house, church, and museum.

A second website, specifically for the Village, can be found here.

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

Penobscot Marine Museum [ME]

Description

The Penobscot Marine Museum presents the 19th-century history of Penobscot Bay's maritime industry and recreation, as well as the history of maritime professionals from the area who sailed elsewhere. Areas of focus include square-riggers and trade with China. Collection highlights include 19th-century work and recreation vessels; marine artworks by Thomas Buttersworth, James Buttersworth, Robert Salmon, and Antonio Jacobsen; and more than 30,000 glass plate photographs. The museum consists of 12 historic structures, forming a "village" with buildings dating from between 1810 and 1845. One of these is furnished as a Victorian era sea captain's home. The museum owns the 1949 sardine carrier Jacob Pike.

The museum offers a children's room, interactive and traditional exhibits, period rooms, tours, outreach presentations, summer day camps, 10 educational programs, and library access. The library is open by appointment only, and research assistance requires payment. The museum is partially handicapped accessible. The museum also offers an education resource site at http://www.penobscotbayhistory.org. This site includes a teacher's guide, available for download.

Sandy, Oregon Historical Society and Sandy Area Historical Museum [OR]

Description

The Sandy, Oregon Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Sandy, Boring, and Estacada, Oregon and the Greater Mount Hood area. To this end, the society operates the Sandy Area Historical Museum. Historically, logging led Sandy, Oregon's commercial ventures. Travelers on the Oregon Trail also often stopped at Sandy to recuperate before continuing their long voyage.

The museum offers exhibits.

Lower Merion Historical Society [PA]

Description

The Lower Merion Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the Township of Lower Merion and the Borough of Narberth, PA. To this end, the society operates a research library.

The society offers library access, research assistance, lectures, and educational programs. Research assistance requires payment. The website offers digitized full texts and historic maps.

Colorado Arts and Crafts Society [CO]

Description

The Colorado Arts and Crafts Society researches and promotes awareness of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Colorado (circa 1895-1920). Pride in personal workmanship is key to the Arts and Crafts Movement, instigated by philosopher John Ruskin and poet William Morris. The society is located within the 1917 Craftsman-style Boettcher Mansion.

The society offers tours, lectures, and educational programs.

Old Sturbridge Village [MA]

Description

Old Sturbridge Village, which depicts New England life between 1790 and 1840, is one of the largest living history museums within the United States. Covering 200 acres, the site includes 59 historic buildings and three water-powered mills. Buildings range from residences and trade shops to a local law office. Animals on site include sheep, pigs, and heritage-breed turkeys. The museum collections include more than 60,000 artifacts.

The village offers orientation tours, period rooms, exhibits, costumed interpreters, demonstrations, hands-on history activities, educational programs, outreach programs, a children's summer camp, Scout programs, custom teacher workshops, picnic sites, food for purchase, and boxed lunches by advance order. Wheelchairs are available upon request, and a sign language interpreter can be present given at least two weeks advance notice. More than half of the structures allow for wheelchair entry. A guide listing accessible and partially accessible sites is available on the website. Reservations for teacher workshops must be made at least four weeks in advance. The website also offers a virtual tour; an extensive database of research, historic documents, and historic images; historic recipes; pre- and post-visit activity suggestions; curriculum plans; and children's activities.

Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site [SC]

Description

Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site presents the 1859 Greek Revival residence of Representative, Senator, and Governor James Henry Hammond (1807-1864). Hammond is perhaps best known for his words "Cotton is King!," describing the economy of the southern United States. The site includes Hammond's home, heirloom gardens, a lane of 145-year-old magnolia trees, the preserved slave quarters, and 369 acres of surrounding land.

The site offers house tours, lectures, and third- and eighth-grade programs in accordance with state educational standards.

Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm [PA]

Description

The 100-acre Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm presents the daily life of the Pennsylvania German family who lived on the farm between the 1760s and 1913. A farmhouse, originally erected in the 1760s; spring house; cabin; replica circa 1893 schoolhouse; a circa 1850 barn; and nine other structures complete the site's outfit of buildings. Creatures and crops located on site include rabbits, horses, chickens, goats, mules, cows, sheep, pigs, turkeys, flax, wheat, corn, rye, and potatoes.

The farm offers guided tours, hands-on period skill learning, educational programs, home school programs, costumed living history interpreters, children's summer programs, workshops on historical crafts and skills, outreach programs, and a picnic pavilion. Outreach program options include a visit from one of the farm's sheep or chickens. The website offers pre-visit information for teachers, post-visit activities, a farm animal sponsorship program, and a virtual tour.