The Linn County Historical Museum is housed in Brownsville's original railroad depot and holds collections and information representing all of Linn County. The museum also cares for the Moyer House, an elegant home completed in 1881 by pioneering figures of Brownsville.
The museum and house offer exhibits, tours, and occasional living history events.
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.
The Autry National Center celebrates the American West through three important institutions: the Museum of the American West, the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, and the Institute for the Study of the American West. The Autry was established in 2003 following the merger of the Southwest Museum, the Women of the West Museum , and the Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry Museum of Western Heritage). Through innovative exhibitions, a broad range of programs, and an extensive collection of art and artifacts, the Autry National Center explores the distinct stories and interactions of cultures and peoples, and their impact on the complex, evolving history of the American West.
The museums provide exhibits, tours, performances, film screenings, and other educational and recreational programs.
With 16 historic buildings in its main complex, which occupies most of a square block in downtown Decorah, Iowa, and two National Register sites just outside the city, Vesterheim houses over 24,000 artifacts, which include large samplings from the fine, decorative, and folk arts, and the tools and machinery of early agriculture, lumbering, and other immigrant industries. Vesterheim also acts as a cultural center dedicated to preserving living traditions by offering classes in Norwegian folk art and culture, Elderhostels, and special programs for preschool, elementary, secondary, and college students.
The museums offers exhibits, classes, tours, research library access, and other educational and recreational programs.
Maintained by the Fairfield Heritage Organization, the 1811 Sherman House was the birthplace of General William Tecumseh Sherman and his brother, U.S. Senator John Sherman, and has been restored and furnished to period. Exhibits in the space include Sherman family memorabilia; a recreation of General Sherman's Civil War field tent including several items he used during the war; and a sound and light presentation depicting his passion for the Union.
The Georgian Museum is housed in an 1832 Federal-style home has been restored and furnished today as it would have been in the 1830s with some original pieces and numerous early Fairfield County items.
Both museums offer exhibits and tours, as well as educational programs.
The mission of Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer is to preserve and portray the era of the pioneer town builders who created the first communities in Nebraska, offering a hands-on living history experience that tells the story of that early town building in Nebraska. Stuhr Museum preserves over 150,000 historical artifacts in its collections, including 60 historic buildings and various railroad equipment.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, and educational and recreational events.
The Society maintains the 1717 Reverend Daniel Putnam House as a museum. Volunteer tour guides, dressed in period costume, explain how daily chores were accomplished in the 1700s, and often cook popular dishes of the day over the kitchen fire.
The house offers tours.
Hearthside is a unique stone mansion built in 1810 on pastoral Great Road, the first road through the wilderness between Providence and Mendon, MA, and one of the oldest thoroughfares in America. Complimenting the historical site is the adjacent Hannaway Blacksmith Shop.
The homestead offers tours, demonstrations, and recreational and educational events.
The Deerfield Area Historical Society is dedicated to preserving and interpreting local history and architecture in Deerfield, Bannockburn, Riverwoods, and Lincolnshire. It also created and maintains the Deerfield Historic Village, made up of five buildings dating from 1837 to 1905 that offer a look at a typical prairie community.
The village offers tours, exhibits, and educational programs.
The mission of the Shrewsbury Historical Society is to preserve Shrewsbury history, promote participation from the community at large, highlight Shrewsbury's historical significance, and share the valuable resources of the Society through educational programs. The Society's headquarters also serves as a museum and educational center, displaying artifacts from the area's past.
The museum offers exhibits and education programs.