The Hubbard County Historical Museum presents the history of Hubbard County, Minnesota. Permanent exhibits include Native American life, farming, logging, quilts, and rooms depicting a pioneer cabin and a one-room schoolhouse. Collection strengths include Civil War artifacts and textiles.
The museum offers exhibits, period rooms, group programs, and tours.
Freetown Village presents the history and culture of the approximately 3,000 free African Americans known to have been living in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1870. The content focus is on the Fourth Ward, which is Indianapolis' oldest African American settlement.
The village offers a summer camp for five through 14 year old children, interactive plays, spiritual music performances, and hands-on children's workshops. With the exception of the summer camp, all programs are available as outreach programming in Indiana and nearby states.
This site is used by local Native Americans as a ceremonial meeting place. The park features special events and tours. Gathering Day, held the third Saturday of October, includes demonstrations of dancing, crafts, and basket weaving.
The park offers tours and educational and recreational events.
The Lower Saucon Township Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation of the historical heritage of the Lower Saucon Township as well as the larger Bethlehem area. The society owns and operates a local one room schoolhouse, which has been renovated recently and is open to the public.
The society offers guided tours and field trip programs. The website offers visitor information as well as a brief history of the Lower Saucon Township.
The Richland Historical Society was founded in 1958 by a group of former teachers in order to aid in the preservation of the Shelly One-Room School. Today, the society continues to work towards preserving the history of the one-room school system.
The society offers guided tours of the Shelly One-Room School as well as special events. The website offers visitor information and a brief history of the society. In order to contact the society via email, use the "contact us" link located on the left side of the webpage.
The Penn Center is one of the nation's first schools for freed slaves and remains one of the most significant African American historical and cultural insitutions in existence today. The Penn Center also seeks to promote and preserve the culture of the Sea Islands of southern South Carolina.
The Penn Center offers exhibits, guided tours of the museum, the Program for Academic and Cultural Enrichment (PACE), and special events. PACE offers after school sessions, a summer enrichment program, a teen leadership institute, and the Child Development Center. The website offers visitor information, a history of the site, and an events calendar.
The Comstock House Historic Site preserves the 1882 home of Solomon Comstock—founder of both the First National Bank and Moorhead State University and an early stakeholder in the creation of a Red River Valley railroad. The interior contains the original Queen Anne Eastlake furnishings.
The site offers period rooms and guided tours.
Founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Palmer Memorial Institute transformed the lives of more than 2,000 African-American students. Today, the campus provides the setting where visitors can explore this unique environment where boys and girls lived and learned during the greater part of the 20th century. The museum links Dr. Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute to the larger themes of African-American history, women's history, social history, and education, emphasizing the contributions African Americans made in North Carolina.
The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, lectures, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Seabrook Schoolhouse was built in 1896 by the residents of the Seabrook community and provided education for grades one through eight until the early 1950s. This one-room schoolhouse is one of the few surviving one-room schoolhouses in Prince George's County. The building is unique in that it was built to resemble the Victorian Gothic architectural style of the cottages that were originally built in the community. The schoolhouse has been restored and continues its legacy of education. It is open for tours by appointment and features a multifaceted, overall program that includes interpretive exhibits and artifacts and programs.
The schoolhouse offers exhibits, tours, and educational programs.
The Pioneer Living History Village is a 90-acre living history 1800s town. Structures are either period or reproductions based on historical research. Sights include an opera house in which Lilly Langtry (1853-1929), famed English actress and beauty, once sang; the childhood home of Henry Fountain Ashurst (1874-1962), one of the first Senators of Arizona; and a circa 1880 cabin which survived an Apache raid.
The museum offers period rooms, demonstrations, living history interpreters, and re-enactments. The museum is closed on rainy days.