General Butler State Resort Park [KY]

Description

The General Butler State Resort Park includes the 1859 Greek Revival Butler-Turpin State Historic House. The house commemorates the Butler family, one of the most prominent military families of Kentucky. The Butlers served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War. Today, their home serves as a museum of local life and the family's military history. The site includes the family home, summer kitchen, log house archaeological site, and cemetery.

The house offers tours, as well as educational programming led by costumed interpreters and in compliance with state educational standards.

San Lorenzo Valley Museum [CA]

Description

The San Lorenzo Valley Museum presents the history of California's San Lorenzo Valley. The museum is housed in a National Register old-growth redwood church built in 1906, and permanent exhibits include a logging display and a circa 1900s kitchen. The kitchen permits demonstration of its equipment to students.

The San Lorenzo Valley Museum offers docent-led tours of the museum to students of 2nd grade community history study, charter and home schools. 'Then and Now' presentations encourage historical comparisons using logging, railroad, antique kitchen, circa 1900 schoolroom, and rotating exhibits with accompanying hands-on activities. Hands-on activities are varied, including washing clothes in a tub with washboards and hand-wringer, making an Ohlone toy, or stenciling bookmarks.

Charles A. Lindbergh House [MN]

Description

The 1906 Charles A. Lindbergh House is the childhood home of Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974), best known for his 1927 flight across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis. Today, the house contains its original furnishings. A visitor's center provides a full-scale model of the Spirit of st. Louis's cockpit that guests can enter, in addition to information on Lindbergh's life, adventures, and conservation work.

The site offers period rooms, exhibits, films, tours, an interpretive trail, and numerous field trip programs tailored to Minnesota state educational standards. Reservations are required for tours.

Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace [NC]

Description

This pioneer farmstead features the birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance, North Carolina's Civil War governor. Before becoming governor, Vance served as a Confederate Army officer and later became a U.S. Senator. Rugged and controversial, Vance had a dynamic political career, which is traced at the homestead. The five-room log house—reconstructed around original chimneys—and its outbuildings are furnished to evoke the period from 1795 to 1840 when three successive generations of the famed mountain family lived here.

The site offers a slide show, tours, exhibits and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Bentonville Battlefield [NC]

Description

The Battle of Bentonville, fought March 19–21, 1865, was the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive. This major battle, the largest ever fought in North Carolina, was the only significant attempt to defeat the large Union army of General William T. Sherman during its march through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865.

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

Monroe Historical Society [CT]

Description

The Monroe Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Monroe, Connecticut. The society operates the 1790 East Village-Barn Schoolhouse, which contains hornbooks (primers attached to a panel and covered with a thin sheet of horn), readers, and desks built to period appearance.

The school may be used for classes. The society also offers hands-on activity sessions such as churning butter, book binding, and candle dipping. The website offers instructions on using a drop spindle and recipes for both historical snacks and natural dye solutions.

Hampton National Historic Site [MD]

Description

When the Hampton Estate was finished in 1790, it was the largest home in the United States. Today, the home stands open as a historic house museum, and offers visitor a glimpse into the lives of America's elite at the beginning of the 19th century.

The home offers guided tours and exhibits on the home's history. The website offers a history of the home, visitor information, curriculum guides, teaching materials, and several photo galleries of the home and its grounds. In order to contact the park via email, use the "contact us" link located on the left side of the webpage.