The Historical Society of Harford County seeks to preserve and share the history of Harford County, Maryland. To this end, they operate several museums. The Hays House presents the day-to-day life of a family living in the Federal Period (approximately 1788-1825).
The Hays House offers period rooms and hands-on activities.
The Antioch Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Antioch, California. To this end, the society operates a museum.
The museum offers period rooms and group tours. Reservations are required for school groups.
The Historical Society of Watertown seeks to preserve and share the history of Watertown, Massachusetts.
The society offers living history outreach programs and lectures for teachers.
Completed in 1825, Fort Snelling was originally built to prevent non-U.S. citizens from making use of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. After 1851, the fort served as a supply depot, training center for Union troops, and the headquarters of the Army Department of Dakota.
The fort offers a hands-on educational program; living history tours; day camps based on the pioneer stories of Laura Ingalls Wilder; blacksmithing, bread baking, tea, and hearth baking classes; outreach presentations given by costumed interpreters; lectures; and a picnic area. The website offers a virtual tour.
The "Cultural Crossroads on the Arkansas," El Pueblo History Museum has always been a gathering place for diverse people and cultures. The site includes an 1840s-style adobe trading post and plaza, as well as the archaeological excavation for the original 1842 El Pueblo trading post. The museum building showcases the city's history and the various cultural and ethnic groups in Pueblo and the region. The site also features the Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byways Information Center.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, and educational programs.
The Cherry Hill Farmhouse and Barn is furnished with 18th- and 19th-century decorative arts and farming tools. The Greek Revival framed home was built in 1845, while the barn dates to 1856. Both were repeatedly requisitioned by the armies of the Civil War. Other historical structures on site include a pit privy, corn crib, well house, buggy shed, and tackle barn.
The site offers tours, period rooms, lectures, concerts, readings, re-enactments, and children's teas.
The Frontier Culture Museum presents the story of the men and women who came to the United States prior to its existence as a country. The most common origin points of these people were England, Germany, Ireland, and West Africa. Reproductions and actual rural structures moved from these locations represent the various homelands, while another set of exhibits depicts their new life in North America in the 1740s, 1820s, and 1850s. Other topics discussed at the museum include food ways, woodworking, and fiber processing.
The museum offers exhibits, interpretive signage, hands-on activities, living history demonstrations, day camps, three outreach presentations, a teacher institute, a picnic area, a field trip grant application, and a non-lending library with more than 5,000 volumes. The website offers pre- and post-visit discussion topics. All educational programs meet state educational standards.
Whitesbog was an active 19th- and 20th-century cranberry- and blueberry-producing community. This company town was founded in the 1870s by Joseph J. White. The commercial high-bush blueberry was developed here by Elizabeth White. Once a thriving town and one of the largest cranberry farms in the state, the now silent village is an example of the changes in agriculture in this state.
A second website for the site, operated by the Whitesbog Preservation Trust, can be found here.
The site offers tours, lectures, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Harn Homestead shares the history of territorial Oklahoma. Historic structures include the 1904 Queen Anne main residence and the Shinn Barn.
The homestead offers hands-on activities; educational programs about the schoolhouse, farm, barn, and a re-enactment of the 1899 Land Run (in which the students participate); day camps; overnight programs; and tours of the residence and grounds. Reservations are required for large groups.
The Vinalhaven Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Vinalhaven, Maine—an island community. To this end, the society operates a museum which presents topics such as daily life, education, farming, fishing, the horse net and granite industries, and the Civil War.
The museum offers exhibits.