Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society and Museum Complex [NY]

Description

The Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society is devoted to the preservation and interpretation of Long Island's past—in particular, the history of the Bellport-Brookhaven-East-Patchogue area. The Society pursues this goal through its Museum Complex, its museum collections and gallery exhibitions, its educational programs, its outreach to the community, and its publication of studies on local history and material culture. The Museum Complex includes the 1833 Post-Crowell House, the 19th-century Ralph Brown Building, a blacksmith shop, the Barn Museum, the John Chester Memorial Boathouse, and an 1850 gazebo.

The society offers research library access and occasional recreational and educational events; the Museum Complex provides exhibits and tours.

Baltimore American Indian Center [MD]

Description

The Baltimore American Indian Center (BAIC) is an urban American Indian Center established to assist and support American Indian and Alaskan Native families with moving into an urban environment and adjusting to the culture change they will experience. The BAIC also serves as a focal point for the Indian community for social and cultural activities and to educate non-native people about the cultures of the North American Indian and Alaskan Native communities.

The Center offers educational cultural classes and workshops, as well as an annual powwow.

Hopsewee Plantation

Description

Built almost 40 years prior to the American Revolution, the Hopsewee Plantation House, still a private residence, is a typical low-country rice plantation dwelling of the early 18th century, with four rooms opening into a wide center hall on each floor, a full brick cellar, and attic rooms. Constructed on a brick foundation covered by scored tabby, the house is built of black cypress. It is furnished in 18th- and 19th-century furniture.

The house offers tours.

New Castle Historical Society: Dutch House, Amstel House, and Old Library Museum [DE]

Description

The New Castle Historical Society's three museums—the late-17th-century Dutch House, the 1730s Amstel House, and the 1892 Old Library Museum—tell unique stories about the town's past and its residents. From Dutch laborers and British colonial governors to prominent American architects, the New Castle Historical Society celebrates New Castle's diverse history from the town's 17th-century founding through the preservation efforts of the 21st century. The Society offer tours, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Student museum tours are available that emphasize colonial and revolutionary Delaware and American history. Ideal for fourth and fifth grade students, our tours are aligned with Delaware history education standards. Additional tours are available for other grade levels.

The Society’s website offers an events calendar, visitor information, and an online gift shop.

Indian River County Historical Society and Museum [FL]

Description

The Indian River County Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the environment and social history of Indian River County, FL. The society's museum, located in the 1903 Vero Beach Railroad Station, allows visitors to tour the exhibit center and get a glimpse of local history from prehistoric times through World War II. The society also operates the 1909 Hallstrom Farmstead, which contains furnishings and art original to the site. The home was originally the main residence of a pineapple plantation.

The museum offers tours and exhibits. The farmstead offers period rooms and both historical and environmental tours.

Moross House/Detroit Garden Center

Description

The Detroit Garden Center is a nonprofit horticultural organization located in Detroit's oldest brick house, historic 1840s-era Moross House. The Center offers tours of the house with its restored parlor and hallway, as well as educational garden-related activities. The Detroit Garden Center is an organization whose primary focus is offering educational gardening related activities.

The house offers tours.

Washington County Historical Society, LeMoyne House, and LeMoyne Crematory [Pennsylvania]

Description

Located in the LeMoyne House in Washington, Pennsylvania, the WCHS provides many programs, activities, and services to individuals and groups in the tri-state area. The LeMoyne House is Pennsylvania's first National Historic Landmark of the Underground Railroad. Built in 1812 by John Julius LeMoyne, the house became part of the Underground Railroad under his son, Francis Julius LeMoyne. The society also oversees the LeMoyne Crematory, the first crematory in the United States.

The house offers tours, exhibits, and access to a research library; the crematory offers tours; and the society offers lectures, workshops, conferences, and other educational programs.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society

Description

The Society allows visitors to step into the original Surveyors' House from Laura's book By the Shores of Silver Lake, or see firsthand Pa's craftsmanship in the house he built on Third Street, the Ingalls Home. The Society is open year-round and offers tours of the two original Ingalls family homes filled with items that belonged to Laura and her family and the First School of De Smet. There are 16 other sites in De Smet that Laura mentioned in her books that visitors may also see.

The society offers exhibits and tours.

Sauder Village

Description

Visitors to Sauder Village experience history up close as costumed staff lead activities and demonstrations of daily rural life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Depending on the day and season, visitors may encounter hymn singing, demonstrations of old printing techniques, samples of a 19th-century recipe, or a chance to taste a homemade pickle or help with food preparation. The craft buildings and studios are home to several nationally-recognized craftsmen working with traditional crafts in both historic and modern interpretations. The village also includes a 350-seat restaurant; a bakery; a campground; a 98-room country inn; and an exhibit/performance center, Founder's Hall.

Sauder Village offers historical reenactments, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and other opportunities.

Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home

Description

Robert Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to adulthood, became chairman of the Pullman Company at the turn of the 20th century. He built Hildene, a Georgian Revival mansion, in 1905 in the scenic village of Manchester, Vermont. It became home to only Lincoln descendants until 1975, longer than any other Lincoln residence. Today, its historic home, gardens, trails, woods, and farm are preserved on 412 acres of quintessential Vermont landscape. Our camps and school programs foster children's love of learning in a safe and friendly environment. Each day they experience a wide variety of hands-on activities that are educational and fun. They are encouraged to explore, experiment and make their own discoveries. All of our school programs support Vermont's Framework of Standards & Learning Opportunities.

Hildene offers tours; exhibits, including "The American Ideal; Abraham Lincoln and the Second Inaugural"; and educational programs.