The Naugatuck Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Naugatuck, Connecticut and the surrounding area. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history, located within the 1910 Naugatuck Railroad Station.
The society offers exhibits, outreach programs for students, and hands-on activities. Museum field trips are available by reservation only.
The Beverly Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the socio-cultural, artistic, and transportation history of Beverly, Massachusetts and Massachusetts' North Shore. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history, the 17th-century Balch House, the Reverend John Hale Farm, and the Charles W. Galloupe Sr. Memorial Library. Collections consist of more than 750,000 artifacts. Highlights include a fire bucket, military artifacts, local maritime artifacts, paintings from the 18th through early 20th centuries, documents signed by U.S. Presidents, children's artifacts, and genealogical resources. The society also boasts an extensive collection of photographs and pamphlets of all manner of transportation technologies. The 1781 John Cabot House Museum holds both the library and exhibits. Permanent exhibits address the Revolutionary War and the Beverly Bank, established 1802. The Balch House is furnished to period. The Hale Farm is furnished to depict changing trends in Beverly's history.
The society offers exhibits, tours of the Cabot House, Balch House tours, Hale Farm tours, research library access, research assistance, curriculum-based programs, a one-hour Balch House tour for students, a two-hour historic Beverly bus tour for students, an outreach living history program for students, and teacher workshops. Fees are required for both non-member library access and research assistance. Non-member library access is limited. The living history program depicts author and poet Lucy Larcom (1824-1893).
This Italianate house was built in 1857 to the designs of Alexander Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. Purchased by the Astor family in 1881, the house was the social center for New York society during the Gilded Age. The Beechwood Theatre Company portrays Mrs. Astor's family, friends, and domestic staff at the height of the Victorian Era at the mansion. They welcome visitors to the mansion, offering a spirited interpretation of Victorian society not found elsewhere.
The site offers tours, living history performances, and educational and recreational events (including living history events).
The Manchester Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Manchester, Connecticut. To this end, the society operates the Old Manchester Museum, located within the 1859 Cheney School; the 1798 Cheney Homestead, home to the founding family of the Mt. Nebo Silk Company; and a reconstruction of the 1751 Keeney Schoolhouse. The Manchester area was originally inhabited by the Podunk. English settlers arrived circa 1783.
The society offers exhibits, lectures, period rooms, school tours, walking tours of the Cheney Mills area, and archival access. The Cheney Homestead and Keeney Schoolhouse are open by appointment. The website offers a coloring book and historical photographs.
The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center depicts 18th- and 19th-century rural life in the state of Maine. Norlands was originally the Washburn family home. This family included a Senator, Secretary of State, congressmen, governors, and founders of the Washburn-Crosby Gold Medal Flour Company. Structures include a one-room schoolhouse, mansion, meeting house, and library.
The site offers living history interpreters, period rooms, guided building tours, self-guided grounds tours, curriculum-based interactive programs for students, outreach programs for schools, hands-on activities, overnight programs, and picnic tables.
The Leominster Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Leominster, MA.
The society offers exhibits, research library access, self-guided tours, and guided tours. Reservations are required for guided tours.
The East Lyme Historical Society operates the circa 1805 Little Boston Schoolhouse and circa 1660 Thomas Lee House. The latter is listed separately within this database. The schoolhouse remained in use through 1922, and has now been restored to its early 20th-century appearance. A barn with historical exhibits is located nearby.
The society offers a colonial day for fourth grade students, lectures, period rooms, exhibits, and picnic tables. The sites are open June through Labor Day, although tours may be arranged for other times of the year.
Founded in 1853, the Old Colony Historical Society is one of the oldest historical societies in New England. The society maintains a diverse collection of local historical artifacts, ranging form Native American artifacts to portraits of Taunton elders, and is housed in the Bristol Academy building, a fine example of Italianate architecture that was designed by Richard Upjohn and is now listed on the national register of historic places.
The society offers guided tours of the Bristol Academy building, field trip programs for local students, a lecture series, and research resources. The website offers visitor information, a history of Tauton and the society, and information regarding the research resources offered by the society.
The Robert Frost Farm was home to Robert Frost and his family from 19001911. Frost, one of the nation's most acclaimed poets whose writings are said to be the epitome of New England, attributed many of his poems to memories from the Derry years. The simple two-story white clapboard farmhouse is typical of New England in the 1880s.
A second, individual website for the site can be found here.
The site offers exhibits, tours, lectures, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Old Firehouse Museum presents the history of South Hadley, Connecticut; local industries; and local firefighting between 1899 and 1973, the years in which the firehouse was in active use by the area fire department. Permanent exhibits include an 1890s period room and a firefighting display. Collection highlights include a 1926 Dodge Fire Engine and two 19th-century hand pumpers.
The museum offers a period room and exhibits. The website offers oral histories.