The First Due Fire Museum addresses fire safety, firefighting history, and modern firefighting. Collection highlights include an 1820 hose cart, uniforms, and breathing apparatus. The museum is staffed with professional firefighters.
The museum offers exhibits and interactive stations.
The Charlevoix Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the Charlevoix, MI area and its people. To this end, the society operates the Harsha House Museum. The 1891 Harsha House contains three period rooms, local history exhibits, a 1917 player piano, and a research library with oral histories.
The society offers exhibits, period rooms, research library access, and research assistance.
The E. St. Julien Cox House is the fully restored 1871 Italianate style home of Eugene Cox, a prominent statesman who served as mayor of St. Peter as well as in the State House and Senate.
Student group tours are led by costumed guides and educational programs are offered.
The Whitley County Historical Museum presents the history of Whitley County, IN and its people. Exhibits include a reproduction Native American wigwam. The museum is located within the former residence of U.S. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall (1854-1925).
The museum offers exhibits.
The Brooklyn Park Historical Farm, a 10-acre farmstead established more than a century ago, recreates Minnesotan farm life from 1890 to 1910. Interpreters demonstrate the chores of daily life on the farm for visitors.
The site offers living history demonstrations, tours, and other recreational and educational events.
The Oakland County Pioneer & Historical Society's Pine Grove Historical Museum consists of the 1845 Greek revival mansion of the 12th Michigan governor, Moses Wisner. The site also contains a summer kitchen, outhouse, smokehouse, root cellar, and the Drayton Plains One-Room Schoolhouse. A Carriage House is also home to the Research Library, office and the Pioneer Museum.
School tours led by costumed docents are offered on site. Teachers may also rent the one-room school house for half the day to teach their own lessons in an authentic Victorian school. Teacher guides are available on site to assist teachers in designing a field trip that meets their needs.
The Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have contributed to the sport of baseball within the state of Indiana. Professional players, coaches, managers, contributors, and veterans are all eligible for the honor of induction. The hall maintains a museum.
The museum offers exhibits.
The North West Company Fur Post is a living history museum interpreting fur trading in the year 1804. That year, a trader from the North West Company erected a winter trading post on site. From there he conducted business with the Ojibwe before moving on again in late April. Topics addressed include Ojibwe culture, changes in Ojibwe culture which occurred after European contact, European barter systems, the fur trade and the global economy, trader life, women in the fur trade, communication between cultures, and archaeology. As the site is a reconstruction, it permits visitors a hands-on experience.
The post offers interactive exhibits, living history interpreters, period skill demonstrations, day camps, guided group tours, field trip programs, nature trails, interpretive signs, canoeing opportunities, and a picnic shelter. Field trips include a guided tour, an educational game, a fire making demonstration, and a craft activity. Canoes are not available on site. The website offers history articles.
The Walton House Museum presents the daily life of people in the Dayton, OH area between circa 1850 and the early 20th century. The 1838 Walton House holds period rooms displaying domestic life between 1850 and the early 1900s, in addition to fan, buttonhook, and patterned glass exhibits. The grounds contain a flower and perennial garden and a medicine garden. The latter consists of medicinal herbs ordered by a doctor in 1844. Gardens which produced herbs for local doctors were common between 1820 and 1850.
The museum offers exhibits, period rooms, gardens, and guided tours for students.
In the 1830s and 1840s, settlers from other parts of the United States and
Europe began to flow into the Wisconsin Territory. They were lured by the prospect of plentiful lead to be had in shallow diggings throughout the region. As the easy lead became scarce, and greater technical knowledge was needed to work the earth for its deeper lead and zinc deposits, immigrants from Cornwall,
England filled the need. These miners and their families made a lasting imprint on southwest Wisconsin.
At Pendarvis, you can see their stone cottages, learn about their lives, and come to understand how their legacy was preserved in the twentieth century.
Pendarvis offers guided tours for groups by reservation from May through October. Please allow at least 3 weeks lead time. For further information, contact by telephone or e-mail.
Pendarvis offers an elementary level educational activity packet available for free download from the web site.