Edinburg Volunteer Fire Department Museum [TX]
The Edinburg Volunteer Fire Department Museum presents the local history of firefighting.
The museum offers exhibits and self-guided tours.
The Edinburg Volunteer Fire Department Museum presents the local history of firefighting.
The museum offers exhibits and self-guided tours.
The Greenbrier Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of the Greenbrier area, West Virginia. To this end, the society operates the North House Museum and an archival collection. The archives contain documents dating as far back as the 1700s. The North House Museum, housed in an 1820 residence, presents life between the Revolutionary War and World War II.
The museum offers guided tours, tea and tour programs, historic district walking tours, a one-hour educational program on 1850s manners and games, archival access, and research assistance. A nominal fee is charged for archival access. Reservations are required for educational programs, the tea and tour combination, and walking tours.
The Calvin B. Taylor House Berlin Town Museum is a residence dating from 1832, which has been furnished in period style. One wing serves as a local history museum for Berlin, Maryland. The town was once home to Commodore Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), Navy hero of the Barbary Wars and War of 1812.
The museum offers period rooms, exhibits, and concerts.
The General Butler State Resort Park includes the 1859 Greek Revival Butler-Turpin State Historic House. The house commemorates the Butler family, one of the most prominent military families of Kentucky. The Butlers served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican War, and Civil War. Today, their home serves as a museum of local life and the family's military history. The site includes the family home, summer kitchen, log house archaeological site, and cemetery.
The house offers tours, as well as educational programming led by costumed interpreters and in compliance with state educational standards.
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).
The Battle of Bentonville, fought March 1921, 1865, was the last full-scale action of the Civil War in which a Confederate army was able to mount a tactical offensive. This major battle, the largest ever fought in North Carolina, was the only significant attempt to defeat the large Union army of General William T. Sherman during its march through the Carolinas in the spring of 1865.
The site offers a short film, exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Point Lookout Lighthouse Preservation Society has conserved the Point Lookout Lighthouse structures, returning them to their 1925 appearance. Once a month, the society opens the lighthouse to the public. The coal and buoy sheds are not accessible to the public.
The society offers informed docents who answer visitor questions during open house events.
When the Hampton Estate was finished in 1790, it was the largest home in the United States. Today, the home stands open as a historic house museum, and offers visitor a glimpse into the lives of America's elite at the beginning of the 19th century.
The home offers guided tours and exhibits on the home's history. The website offers a history of the home, visitor information, curriculum guides, teaching materials, and several photo galleries of the home and its grounds. In order to contact the park via email, use the "contact us" link located on the left side of the webpage.
Hickory Hill served as the home for Tom Watson, the divisive US Senator from Georgia. Watson, although elected as a democrat, soon was one of the senate's biggest advocates for southern black farmers. Today, Hickory Hill serves as a historic house museum which chronicles the life and times of Thomas Watson.
The home offers field trip programs, guided tours, summer camps, and exhibits on Thomas Watson. The website offers a biography of Watson, visitor information, a calendar of events, and resources for teachers including curriculum guides and worksheets.
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.