Musuem of Florida History [FL]

Description

The Museum of Florida History is located in the Old Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida. The museum chronicles the history of the Florida peninsula from ancient times through the Spanish occupation up to the present day. The museum also is home to several collections of artifacts and documents pertaining to Florida history.

The museum offers workshops, tours, exhibits, traveling trunk exhibits, field trip programs, and outreach programs where museum employees give presentations at local schools. The website offers online exhibits, visitor information, access to museum collections, and online resources for teachers such as downloadable worksheets.

Makah Cultural & Research Center [WA]

Description

The Makah Cultural and Research Center is located along Neah Bay in Washington, and is one of the nation's finest tribal museums. The museum gives visitors a glimpse of the pre-contact life of the Makah people, while the cultural and research center houses the Makah language program, which works towards the preservation and teaching on the Makah language. The cultural and research center also houses over 60,000 Makah artifacts.

The museum offers guided tours for groups and individuals along with hands on activities and demonstrations of traditional Makah activities such as basketry, carving, and storytelling.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic Site [NY]

Description

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is located in a historic tenement that was home to roughly 7,000 people between 1863 and 1935. Today, the building stands as a historic museum, where visitors can tour the cramped living space and learn about the lives of past residents of the building.

The museum offers presentations, special events such as plays, art exhibits, and readings that represent the immigrant experience, and guided tours. The website offers a history of the site, along with lesson plans for students, visitor information, and a virtual tour of the museum.

High Plains Historical Society and The Northern Drylanders Museum [CO]

Description

The High Plains Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Northern Weld County, Colorado. To this end, the society operates The Northern Drylanders Museum. Located within the 1934 Old Nunn Municipal Hall, the museum presents information and artifacts of local historical interest.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, lectures, and outreach presentations. Reservations are required for group tours.

Trinidad History Museum [CO]

Description

Visitors can explore Trinidad’s past and its place in the American West at the Trinidad History Museum. The museum features several attractions on one block in Trinidad's acclaimed historic district. The Baca House and Kitchen Garden is a unique adobe home which evokes the lifestyle of community leaders Dolores and Felipe Baca and their children. Heirloom herbs and vegetables thrive in the garden. The Bloom Mansion and Historic Gardens preserve the Victorian home of banker and cattle baron Frank Bloom. The Santa Fe Trail Museum is a historic adobe building housing family heirlooms, commercial goods, and photographs that tell the stories of the people and events of Trinidad's past.

The museum's sites offer exhibits, tours, and educational programs.

Oakleigh Historic House [AL]

Description

The Oakleigh Historic House presents society, working class, and servant life in the mid 20th century along the Gulf Coast. The Greek Revival structure was built circa 1833 as the home of James W. Roper, cotton factor. The 1850 Cook's house served as the property slave quarters, and the 1850 Cox-Deasy House presents local history circa World War II.

The site offers period rooms and guided tours of the main house.

The Chatham Historical Society [MA]

Description

The Chatham Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Chatham, Massachusetts. To that end, the society operates a museum located within the 1752 Atwood House. The site includes nine exhibit galleries, period rooms, the mid-20th-century Nickerson North Beach Camp, bells from the Chatham school, and a Wampanoag canoe. Collections include more than 3,000 artifacts, 2,500 photographs, and 800 books.

The society offers guided tours of the Atwood House. The website offers images of collection highlights.

Rural Hill: Center of Scottish Heritage [NC]

Description

Rural Hill consists of the 265-acre farmlands of John Davidson, Revolutionary War soldier and son of Scottish immigrants. The site contains a reconstruction of the Davidson home, as well as two historic schoolhouses (built 1890 and circa 1898) and the original ash house, chicken shed, granary, barn, well house, and smoke house. Today, the property operates as a working farm.

The center offers educational programs, walking trails, hayrides, and guided tours on period farm life and Rural Hill's involvement in the American Revolution. The website offers activities and suggested reading for educators.

The Museum at Prophetstown [IN]

Description

The Museum at Prophetstown presents the history of Indiana's Wabash River Valley through the stories of a 1920s farmstead, a Native American settlement, and the prairie itself. The working farmstead includes a replica Sears Roebuck and Company Catalog farmhouse. The Shawnee brothers Tenskwautawaw and Tecumseh founded the 1808 Native American settlement in Prophetstown as capital of a new Native American Confederation. The settlement was attacked in 1811 by U.S. forces; and today displays replicas of the Council House, medicine lodge, "chief's" cabin, and granary.

The museum offers workshops; guided tours of the farmstead; period rooms; summer camps; and a program for boys from Cary County, allowing them to work with draft horses. The website offers listings of relevant state educational standards.

President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site [VT]

Description

The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site presents Calvin Coolidge's (1872-1933) boyhood home, which also served as the site where he was sworn in as the 30th President of the United States following the death of Warren Harding. The site has been restored to its appearance in 1923, the year in which the aforementioned event took place. In addition to Coolidge's home, the public can also visit the Plymouth Cheese Factory, created by Coolidge's father; a general store; a church; several barns; the dance hall turned temporary White House; heritage gardens; and the home in which Coolidge was born.

The museum offers period rooms and exhibits on Coolidge's life, horse-drawn vehicles, and farming equipment, among other topics.