Talcott Mountain State Park [CT]

Description

The Farmington River Valley landmark of Heublein Tower sits atop Talcott Mountain, a long, precipitous wooded ledge named after the Talcott family. The 165-foot structure was built as a summer home in 1914 by Gilbert Heublein. In the early '50s, two future presidents were guests of the Hartford Times, then General Dwight D. Eisenhower (who was asked to run for office there) and Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors' Guild. Following a period of ownership of the property by the Hartford Times during WWII and the early 1950s, it was slated for residential development by a private corporation when the 557 acres of Talcott Mountain came under public ownership in 1965 through the cooperative efforts of private conservationists and state and federal governments.

The park offers tours.

Sagadahoc Preservation [ME]

Description

The organization seeks to preserve and maintain the Bath area's architectural heritage through the creation of a historic district commission, the promotion of stewardship, and the use of protective covenants. One of its goals is to continue educational programs on architectural heritage in Bath's schools and to provide an architectural awareness to all.

The organization offers tours and educational programs.

New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum

Description

The Museum brings to life the 3,000-year history of farming and ranching in New Mexico. The main building contains more than 24,000-square-feet of exhibit space, along with catering space for meetings and events, a mercantile, and theater. Visitors can watch a cow being milked, stroll along corrals filled with livestock, enjoy several gardens, or watch one of a growing number of demonstrations.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, classes, lectures, and other educational and recreational events and programs.

Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry [NY]

Description

The Seneca Museum celebrates historic Seneca Falls, Seneca County, and the Finger Lakes region of central New York State. The Museum illustrates how the Seneca River and the Cayuga-Seneca Canal powered the rise of industry and fostered cultural development, helping to spread social reform movements.

The museum offers exhibits and educational and recreational programs and events.

Patapsco Valley State Park [MD]

Description

In one of Maryland's first state parks (1907), the valley and its natural resources have been enjoyed by the Native Americans, explorers, settlers, and present-day citizens. With its source in Frederick and Carroll counties, the Patapsco serves the Port of Baltimore, and empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The Avalon Visitor Center houses exhibits spanning over 300 years of history along the Patapsco River. Housed in a 19th-century stone dwelling in the Avalon Area, the center includes a recreation of a 1930s forest warden's office. The park contains several historic sites, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the Thomas Viaduct, remains of the Orange Grove Mill, the Avalon Iron and Nail Works, and Bloedes Dam.

The park offers exhibits and tours.

Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum [WA] Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/08/2008 - 13:26
Description

The Center presents interpretative exhibits covering the entire history of the Columbia Gorge, from prehistory to the present day, including First Peoples, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, forts and settlements in the area, timber and fishing industries, transportation up and down the river, and other historical topics.

The center offers a short film, exhibits, and educational programs.

Architectural Heritage Center [OR]

Description

The Center is a nonprofit resource center and showcase for historic preservation. It offers a wide range of education programs and exhibits to help people appreciate, restore, and maintain vintage properties. The Center includes two exhibition galleries, two classrooms, workshop space, a library, collections storage spaces and the Foundation's offices. Its exhibits display artifacts from its extensive collection of architectural hardware, fixtures, and other objects.

The center offers exhibits, lectures, tours, and other educational and recreational programs.

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.

Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County and Sehner-Ellicot-von Hess House [PA]

Description

The Trust maintains the historic Sehner-Ellicott-von Hess House. This was the very building where Captain Meriwether Lewis trained with nationally renowned surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, on those navigational skills vital to the success of the famed Lewis and Clark Expedition and now serves as the headquarters of the Trust. Visitors are welcome to tour this finely restored example of Georgian architecture and its exhibits outlining the story of its restoration and most famous inhabitant, Andrew Ellicott.

The house offers exhibits and tours.

Liberty Hall Restoration

Description

Guided tour of the Kenan family ancestral home, a restored Southern plantation of the 1800s. Eleven rooms, 12 dependencies including garden shop, wine cellar, carriage house, servants quarters, chicken house, smokehouse, overseer's cottage, woodshed, tool house, wash shed and necessary house(bathhouse and privy). Also, Visitor's Center Exhibit Hall, 13-minute video and gift shop. Herb garden and recently added rose garden. There is an admission charge.