Preserve Rhode Island and Governor Henry Lippitt House

Description

Preserve Rhode Island operates several historical sites, including the Governor Henry Lippitt House. Built for textile merchant Henry Lippitt, his wife Mary Ann Balch Lippitt, and their six children, the house was completed in 1865 and occupied by several generations of the Lippitt family for 114 years. Over the years, the Governor Henry Lippitt family made only a few changes respecting the historic integrity of their ancestor's legacy. The majority of the family's furnishings still exist in the house.

The organization offers occasional recreational and educational events; the House offers tours.

Billings Farm and Museum [VT]

Description

The Billings Farm and Museum presents the history, culture, science, and environmental implications of Vermont farm life. Sights include a working dairy farm, an 1890s period-furnished farm house, and exhibits on family farming responsibilities in 1890. The 270-acre farm was established in 1873, and has maintained a herd of Jersey cows since that time. Other animals on site include oxen, Percheron horses, sheep, and chickens. Nearly 200 acres of the farm contain corn silage, alfalfa, and grass hay fields.

The museum offers films on the history of Billings farm, forestry, and environmental awareness; exhibits; hands-on butter making; milking demonstrations; heirloom garden tours; 19th-century children's games; sheep, pumpkin, apple, feed, chicken, calf, and cow programs; hands-on craft activities; research library access; and a snack counter. Appointments are required for library access. Wheelchairs are available for use on site. The 1890s Farm House is partially wheelchair accessible. Visitors are asked to refrain from feeding or petting the animals.

Chelmsford Historical Society [MA]

Description

The Chelmsford Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the historical heritage of Chelmsford and the greater Merrimack Valley. The society is headquartered in Barret-Bryan Homestead, which also serves as a local history museum and a historic house museum. The society also owns and operates the Old Mill Stream, the location of the first saw mill in the town.

The society offers guided tours, exhibit, and special events including walking tours and open houses. The website offers visitor information, a photo album of historic Chelmsford, and an events calendar.

Preserve Rhode Island [RI]

Description

Preserve Rhode Island is dedicated to preserving historic structures throughout Rhode Island. In addition to their activities as an advocacy organization, the organization currently owns five historic buildings, which are all open to the public as historic house museums.

The organization offers tours of their historic properties. The website offers visitor information as well as information regarding the organization's programs and activities.

Quonset Air Museum [RI]

Description

The Rhode Island Quonset Air Museum (QAM) preserves, interprets, and presents Rhode Island's aviation history through collections, research, education, and exhibits. The air museum educates the public in the state's rich aviation legacy and displays collections that document the contributions of Rhode Island to the growth and development of aviation and space exploration.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and educational programs.

Brookfield Historical Society Inc [CT]

Description

The Brookfield Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the history of the Brookfield, Connecticut, and the Parish of Newbury. The society owns and operates a local history museum, historical research center, and the Gurski's Forge building.

The society offers guided tours, exhibits, special presentations, and research resources. The website offers visitor information, a history of Brookfield, information regarding upcoming events, and information regarding the historical resources available for visitors.

Myles Standish Monument State Reservation [MA]

Description

The Myles Standish Monument is located on the top of Captain's Hill and commemorates Captain Myles Standish, the military leader of Plymouth Colony. The monument was completed in 1898, and today is open to visitors during the summer months. The monument features a small viewing area at the top with a spectacular view of the Massachusetts coastline.

The monument offers guided tours during the summer months and interpretive programs. The website offers a brief history of the monument as well as visitor information.

Quincy House

Description

Built as a country estate in 1770, Quincy House was originally surrounded by fields and pasture overlooking Quincy Bay. Its architectural details, including a Chinese fretwork balustrade and classical portico, befit the status of the man who built it, the Revolutionary leader Colonel Josiah Quincy. For generations, the Quincys, like the Adamses, to whom they were related, played important roles in the social and political life of Massachusetts. The family produced three mayors of Boston and a president of Harvard. Much of the historical information pertaining to the house and family was documented in the early 1880s by Eliza Susan Quincy. She kept journals, inventoried the contents of the house, commissioned photographs of the interior, and persuaded relatives to return heirlooms so that the house could become a repository of Quincy family history.

The house offers tours and educational programs.