Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame

Description

The Museum is a 7,200-square-foot facility located on the main level of the Sommet Center. The Museum features interactive games such as a virtual reality, one-on-one basketball game; strength training apparatus used by Olympic swimmers; college football and basketball exhibits; NASCAR video games, two 30-seat theaters with sports videos; and more.

The hall offers exhibits, tours, film screenings, and educational programs.

Richmond History Center and Wickham House [VA]

Description

The Center seeks to engage, educate, and challenge a diverse audience by collecting, preserving, and interpreting Richmond's history. Located in the heart of historic downtown Richmond, the Center presents a comprehensive program of exhibitions, tours, special events, research opportunities, school programs, and other public programs in order to engage the broadest audience in an ongoing dialogue about the significance and relevance of the city's history. The Center also maintains the 1812 Wickham House, where guests can explore aspects of life in the early 19th century. In the public first-floor rooms, ornate decorations helped the Wickhams and their slaves present a picture of leisure and refinement. Exhibited on the second floor are artifacts from the descendants of the family that first inhabited the house.

The center offers tours, exhibits, and educational and recreational events and programs; the house offers exhibits and tours.

Drayton Hall [SC]

Description

Drayton Hall, on which construction began in 1738, is the oldest surviving example Georgian Palladian architecture in the U.S. and one of the only pre-Revolutionary houses that remain in close-to-original condition today.

The house offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events and programs.

Gwinnett Historical Society and Elisha Winn House [GA]

Description

The Society operates its center and library on the second floor of the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse in downtown Lawrenceville, along with the 19.2-acre Elisha Winn Property in the Hog Mountain-Dacula area. The Winn House is open the second Saturday in the month and includes the rehabilitated 1811 Elisha Winn House (birthplace of Gwinnett County); a 12-acre wooded area; and a variety of other buildings of historic interest, including the Walnut Grove one-room schoolhouse, the old Lawrenceville Jail, and a blacksmith shop.

The society offers a research library with main emphasis on Gwinnett and surrounding counties.

Cherokee County Historical Society and Crescent Farm Historical Center [GA]

Description

The Society operates the the Crescent Farm's Rock Barn, constructed in 1906 by Augustus Lee Coggins. It is believed to be the only existing rock barn in Georgia; today, it serves the Society as a meeting hall, exhibition center, and special events facility. The Society also maintains the Historic Courthouse Jail.

The barn offers exhibits; the jail offers tours by appointment; and the society offers research library access and recreational and educational events.

B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretative Center [MS]

Description

The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center will take visitors back to the place where B.B. King grew up and lived the blues long before he learned to make the music that would change his life. Proposed educational, cultural, and character development programming will take the form of classes, mentoring, and interactive exhibits. In addition, the stories of the Delta, from its history to its music, social mores, race relations, literature and legends, and adversities and successes will be examined in one interpretive setting.

Please note: The museum will open Sept. 13, 2008.

The museum will offer exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events and programs.

Chattanooga African American Museum [TN]

Description

The Museum operates as a source of curricula, historical references, creative works, and media about the African-American experience. The Museum maintains a collection of multimedia presentations, rare artifacts, African art, original sculptures, paintings, musical recordings, and local Black newspapers. Visitors can explore the history of Africans in Chattanooga, a region where most Africans were bought to be personal servants or laborers, rather than field hands.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Roswell Historical Society [GA]

Description

The Society promotes the preservation of sources of information concerning the history of Roswell; collects and/or preserves historical sites, books, manuscripts, charts, maps, and other antiquities deemed worthy of a place in its archives; arouses in the citizens and friends of Roswell an interest in its history; and cooperates with other cultural and educational institutions in implanting in the present and future generations pride in Roswell's history and traditions. It offers guided walking tours of the Roswell Historic District, which interpret Roswell history and historic sites along the tour route. It also mounts periodic exhibits with historical themes. Exhibits feature materials held in the Society's Archives, including photographs, artifacts, textiles, vintage clothing, and documents or objects relating to Roswell history.

The society offers research library access, tours, lectures, occasional exhibits, and occasional recreational and educational 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.

Koreshan State Historic Site [FL]

Description

Throughout its history, Florida has welcomed pioneers of all kinds. Cyrus Reed Teed was probably the most unusual, bringing followers to Estero in 1894 to build New Jerusalem for his new faith, Koreshanity. The colony, known as the Koreshan Unity, believed that the entire universe existed within a giant, hollow sphere. The colony began fading after Teed's death in 1908, and in 1961 the last four members deeded the land to the state. Today, visitors can fish, picnic, boat, and hike where Teed's visionaries once carried out survey experiments to prove the horizon on the beaches of Lee County curves upward.

The site offers exhibits, demonstrations, and tours.