Arkansas Post Museum

Description

Early travelers used the Arkansas River as a highway. Just north of the waterway lay a land of tall grasses filled with elk, buffalo, and deer. Explorers such as Audubon, Schoolcraft, and Washington Irving were startled at the expanse of land in this region. Visitors can stroll through this museum's complex of five buildings and explore life on the Arkansas Grand Prairie.

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

Fort Ross State Historic Park [CA]

Description

Fort Ross was a thriving Russian-American Company settlement from 1812 to 1841. This commercial company chartered by Russia's tsarist government controlled all Russian exploration, trade, and settlement in the North Pacific, and established permanent settlements in Alaska and California. Fort Ross was the southernmost settlement in the Russian colonization of the North American continent, and was established as an agricultural base to supply Alaska. Fort Ross was a successfully functioning multicultural settlement for some 30 years. Settlers included Russians, Native Alaskans and Californians, and Creoles (individuals of mixed Russian and native ancestry.) Along with the chapel, the structure of most historical interest at Fort Ross is the Rotchev House, an existing building renovated about 1836 for Alexander Rotchev, the last manager of Ross. It is the only surviving structure. Several other buildings have been reconstructed: the first Russian Orthodox chapel south of Alaska; the stockade; and four other buildings called the Kuskov House, the Officials Barracks, and two corner blockhouses.

The park offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, research library access, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Bodie State Historic Park [CA]

Description

Bodie State Historic Park is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town. Visitors can walk down the deserted streets of a town that once had a population of 10,000 people. The town was founded by Waterman S. Body (William Bodey), who had discovered small amounts of gold in hills north of Mono Lake. In 1877, the Standard Company struck pay dirt and a gold rush transformed Bodie from a town of 20 people to a boomtown. Only a small part of the town survives, preserved in a state of "arrested decay." Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods.

The park offers exhibits and tours.

German Village Society [OH]

Description

The German Village Society seeks to preserve and share the history of working class German Village, a historic neighborhood within Columbus, Ohio. Many of the structures, purchased from Revolutionary War veteran John McGowan, belonged to German immigrants. The society operates a visitor's center. Exhibits topics include preservation, immigration, and brewing.

The center offers an introductory video and exhibits. The society also offers guided tours of the neighborhood. Advanced notice is required for tours.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site [NC]

Description

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, writer, and editor and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site preserves Sandburg's residence, 65,000 artifacts utilized to interpret his life, and Mrs. Sandburg's goat dairy. The dairy currently raises goats representative of the three breeds historically present.

The site offers a 14-minute video, 30-minute guided house tours, period rooms, live performances of Sandburg's works, a standards-based education program for middle school students, and Junior Ranger activities.

Historic Latta Plantation [NC]

Description

Historic Latta Plantation is a historic cotton plantation, dating to circa 1800, and living history farm.

The plantation offers a 15-minute introductory video, guided house tours, self-guided grounds tours, educational programs, traveling trunks, home school programs, and summer camps. The website offers a teacher resource guides, suggested reading, historic games, instructions for making historic toys, and a virtual tour.

Berea Historical Society [OH]

Description

The Berea Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Berea and Middleburg Township, Ohio. To this end, the society sponsors the Mahler Museum & History Center, housed within an 1854 sandstone residence. The History Center includes exhibits and the historical Gray's Candy Kitchen, while the museum focuses on period rooms. The history of Berea is largely dependent on the discovery of area sandstone veins.

The museum offers exhibits, period rooms, guided tours, and an archival resource room.

Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm [NH]

Description

The Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm presents the farming history of New Hampshire, beginning in 1790, through a working farm environment. Structures include a cattle barn, milk house, maple sugar house, stable, and a historic English barn. Also on the grounds are an 1830s garden with period crops; the historic home of Dr. Edwin Crafts Remick and his wife, Marion Ella Miles Remick; and the Captain Enoch Remick House, Edwin Remick's childhood home, which contains the preserved medical office and medicine room of the Remicks.

The farm offers period rooms, guided tours of many of the structures, exhibits, and seasonal and customized educational programs. Reservations are required for school visits.

Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve [SD]

Description

The Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve consists of 1,500 acres dedicated to the memory of original homesteader Stephen Searl Adams. While the preserve's primary function is nature education, the restored Lamont Country Schoolhouse, Stavenger Lutheran Church, Brusseau log cabin, and the Shay-Adams Home are open to visitors. Topics covered in the visitor's center include the voyage of Lewis and Clark.

The homestead offers period rooms and exhibits.