Prairie Homestead [SD]

Description

The Prairie Homestead is adjacent to Badlands National Park and is listed on the national register of historic places. The homestead is one of the few sod dwellings that is still intact, and so offers visitors a unique glimpse into pioneer life. Today, the homestead serves a historic house museum, and is furnished in much the same manner as during its days as a pioneer homestead.

The homestead offers guided tours and exhibits on pioneer life. The website offers visitor information and a brief history of the website.

Daniel Boone Homestead [PA]

Description

The Daniel Boone Homestead is a state historic site which preserves a number of historic structures. Daniel Boone's parents first settled the site in 1730 and the region was populated by many diverse people—English, Welsh, Scots-Irish, Germans, Swedes, Huguenots, and Lenape Indians. Daniel was born here in 1734 and spent his first 16 years here before his family migrated to North Carolina. Today the site tells the story of Daniel's youth and the saga of the region's 18th-century settlers by contrasting their lives and cultures. This region left a lasting impact on Daniel Boone's life, and on the history of Pennsylvania.

The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational programs (including living history events).

Cuyuna Country Heritage Preservation Society [MN]

Description

The Cuyuna Country Preservation Society is dedicated to the preservation of the historical heritage of the Cuyuna area. The society takes particular pride in its extensive collection of recorded oral histories. The society owns and operates a research library, which houses the society's considerable historical collections.

The society offers local history resources including an extensive collection of oral histories, as well as special events including presentations and walking tours. The website offers information regarding the society's resources, as well as information regarding upcoming events.

Tillman County Historical Museum [OK]

Description

The Tillman County Historical Museum is located in the Horse Creek School in downtown Frederick. The museum features extensive collections of historical artifacts relating to the history of Tillman County. Museum highlights include vintage firefighting and farming equipment.

The museum offers exhibits and guided tours. The website offers visitor information and a brief history of the museum.

Moore County Historical Association [NC]

Description

The Moore County Historical Association is dedicated to promoting awareness of Moore County history. The association maintains five historic properties, all of which are open to visitors during the summer or by special appointment.

The association offers exhibits and self-guided tours in the five historic properties, as well as frequent tours of historic landmarks. The website offers visitor information and a brief history of each of the historic structures.

Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace [NC]

Description

This pioneer farmstead features the birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance, North Carolina's Civil War governor. Before becoming governor, Vance served as a Confederate Army officer and later became a U.S. Senator. Rugged and controversial, Vance had a dynamic political career, which is traced at the homestead. The five-room log house—reconstructed around original chimneys—and its outbuildings are furnished to evoke the period from 1795 to 1840 when three successive generations of the famed mountain family lived here.

The site offers a slide show, tours, exhibits and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Historic Brattonsville [SC]

Description

Historic Brattonsville consists of the Bratton farm, which has been carefully restored and now serves as a historic house musum and living history center. Historic Brattonsville preserves the history of the farm from its role in the revolutionary war through its days as a large, rural farm run by slave labor. The museum also has a special focus on African American history.

Historic Brattonsville offers exhibits, guided tours, field trip activities, children's activities, and occasional special events such as family days and presentations. The website offers visitor information, a history of the farm, an events calendar, and information regarding the programs offered by the farm.

Wisconsin Historical Society

Description

The Wisconsin Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the state of Wisconsin. To this end, the society operates the Wisconsin Historical Museum. Permanent exhibits include frontier and immigration history, as well as Native American life. The Native American exhibit includes an Aztalan-style house, which visitors are welcome to enter. Collections consist of more than 110,000 objects and 400,000 artifacts.

The museum offers exhibits, films, interactive audio-visual presentations, full-scale dioramas, workshops, storytelling, lectures, demonstrations, an activity-based self-guided tour, guided tours, hands-on activities, and educational programs in compliance with state educational standards. Reservations are required for school groups and for use of the lunchroom. The society also offers archaeology traveling trunks and outreach presentations for second through fourth grade students. The website offers an extensive state historical database, lesson plans, information on National History Day programming, virtual exhibits, an educational framework on historical thinking, educational games, a fourth-grade textbook, and exhibit-related teachers' guides.

Farmers' Museum [NY]

Description

The Farmer's Museum is an outdoor historical museum which presents the rural heritage of the U.S. Key features include an 1840s village, heritage gardens, and the Lippitt Farmstead. The farm site includes heritage breeds of sheep, turkeys, and cattle, as well as a farmhouse, barns, a granary, a hop house, a smokehouse, and a poultry house. An interactive 1910 county fair is on the grounds on a seasonal basis. Collections consist of over 23,000 artifacts including wallpaper, textiles, and a particularly strong showing of historical woodworking tools.

The museum offers period rooms, gardens, hands-on activities, demonstrations, historic skill workshops, lectures, educational children's programs, a children's interpretation program, and guided tours for groups. Two weeks advance notice is required for group tours. The website offers a museum blog.