Beloit Historical Society, Hanchett-Bartlett Homestead, and Lincoln Center [WI]

Description

The Society operates two sites, the Hanchett-Bartlett Homestead and Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center is the home of the Robert and Elizabeth Solem Museum. Located on the site of the former Lincoln Junior High School, the Center's museum offers visitors exhibit areas which focus on a variety of local historical themes. The exhibit areas include the Beloit Gallery, Arthur Missner Veterans Gallery and Memorial, the Ted Perring Sports Hall of Fame, and the Beloit Hall of Fame. The Center also houses the Beloit Historical Society's offices, archives, community room, collection storage rooms, and the Luebke Family Memorial Library. The 1857 Hanchett-Bartlett Homestead houses period artifacts.

The sites offer exhibits, research library access, tours, and occasional educational and recreational events.

West Chicago Historical Society and Kruse House Museum

Description

The Society oversees the care of the Kruse House Museum. The Kruse House is a 1917 four-square home depicting the Fred Kruse family lifestyle. The house is furnished with period furnishings and collections including china, quilts, jewelry, toys, cut glass, and Chicago and Northwestern railroad history artifacts. The backyard boasts a period garden which has been restored and is being maintained by the West Chicago Garden Club. Each year the Kruse House has a special exhibit along with the ongoing household and railroad memorabilia. Recent exhibits include dolls, clocks, toys, musical instruments, wedding attire, dining customs, planes trains and automobiles, and quilts.

The museum offers exhibits.

Old Salem [NC]

Description

Old Salem includes four museums—the Historic Town of Salem, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), the Old Salem Children's Museum, and the Old Salem Toy Museum— which engage visitors in an educational historical experience about those who lived and worked in the early South.

The museums offer exhibits, tours, demonstrations, and other recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Wilderstein Historic Site [NY]

Description

Wilderstein is an independent nonprofit historic site, maintaining the 1888 Queen-Anne-style country house Wilderstein; its mission is to enrich people's lives by providing a relevant, engaging cultural destination; to protect, preserve, and restore the estate' architecture, landscape, and collections; and to interpret the site's history in compelling and innovative ways.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational programs.

Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts [NJ]

Description

Formed in 1970 to save the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate from the wrecking ball, MAC now operates the 18-room restored mansion as Cape May's only Victorian house museum. MAC also restored and operates the 1859 Cape May Lighthouse where visitors can climb the 199 steps to the top for a view of the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean. Year-round, MAC offers a full schedule of tours and events, including trolley, boat, walking, and ghost tours; food and wine events; summertime family activities; Spring Festival in April and May; the Cape May Music Festival in May and June; Victorian Week in early October; Halloween activities in late October; and six weeks of Christmas tours and events.

The center and its properties offer exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational programs.

Camp Dennison Civil War Museum

Description

Camp Dennison, just outside of Cincinnati, was a military training camp and hospital camp during the Civil War. Today, visitors to Camp Dennison will find the 1804 Waldschmidt House Historical Museum and the Ohio Civil War Museum on site. The area offers information and insight into the Civil War and the happenings at Camp Dennison during this time period.

The museum offers tours, exhibits, and educational and recreational programs.

Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation Historic Site

Description

This beautiful plantation represents the history and culture of Georgia's rice coast. In the early 1800s, William Brailsford of Charleston carved a rice plantation from marshes along the Altamaha River. The plantation and its inhabitants were part of the genteel low-country society that developed during the antebellum period. While many factors made rice cultivation increasingly difficult in the years after the Civil War, the family continued to grow rice until 1913.

Today, at the plantation, a museum features silver from the family collection and a model of Hofwyl-Broadfield during its heyday. A brief film on the plantation's history is shown before visitors walk a short trail to the antebellum home. A guided tour allows visitors to see the home as Ophelia kept it with family heirlooms, 18th- and 19th-century furniture and Cantonese china. As one of the Colonial Coast Birding Trail sites, Hofwyl-Broadfield offers a nature trail that leads back to the Visitors Center along the edge of the marsh where rice once flourished.

The plantation offers exhibits, a film, and tours.