Fort Morgan Museum [CO]

Description

The Museum tells the story of Fort Morgan and Morgan County through permanent and temporary exhibits. It also takes advantage of traveling exhibits from other institutions throughout the United States.

The museum offers exhibits, reference library access, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events.

Woodside Store [CA]

Description

D.O. Tripp and Mathias Parkhurst built the Woodside Store in 1854. Early customers included loggers chopping down the redwoods. Dr. Tripp sold them everything from work boots and ax handles to flour and ham. When farmers settled in the area, the Woodside Store served as their county store, post office, and community center until 1909. Today, visitors can browse the shelves of the Woodside Store, restored to its 1880s appearance, and see the goods available in the mid-to-late 1800s—from canned fruit and frying pans to nails and sewing machines.

The store offers exhibits, educational programs, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Kern County Museum

Description

The Museum features 56 historic exhibits, many in relocated structures; an award-winning hands-on oil exhibition, Black Gold: The Oil Experience; and the Lori Brock Children's Discovery Center for youth eight and under. In addition, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions and special events.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and educational and recreational events (including living history events).

Japanese American National Museum [CA]

Description

The museum shares the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Through its comprehensive collection of Japanese American objects, images, and documents, as well as multifaceted exhibitions, educational programs, documentaries, and publications, the National Museum shares the Japanese American story with a national and international audience.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Mission Mill Museum [OR]

Description

Mission Mill Museum interprets the history of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill which produced wool products from 1889 to 1962 and represents one of Oregon's earliest and strongest industries. Mission Mill also interprets the history of Jason Lee's Methodist Mission to Oregon which settled in the Willamette Valley in 1834 before the major Oregon Trail migrations. The missionaries brought formal education, industry, and large scale agriculture and advocated for U.S. government in the Oregon country. The Museum preserves Mission houses; an Oregon Trail settler's house; a historic church; and the structures, equipment, and original water-powered turbine of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill with related artifacts. The museum's two histories are shared with visitors through individual and group tours, interpretation, speakers, living history, children's programs, hands-on activities, and special events.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, workshops, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.

Old Idaho Penitentiary

Description

Idaho Territory was less than 10 years old when the territorial prison was built east of Boise in 1870. The penitentiary grew from a single cellhouse into a complex of several distinctive buildings surrounded by a high sandstone wall. Convicts quarried the stone from the nearby ridges and completed all the later construction. Over its century of operation, the penitentiary received more than 13,000 convicts, of whom 215 were women. Spurred in part by conditions that sparked a general riot in 1971 and an even more severe riot in 1973, the inmate population was moved to a modern penitentiary south of Boise and the Old Idaho Penitentiary was closed on December 3, 1973. Visitors begin with a video presentation recalling prison history, notorious inmates, and daily prison life. Once inside the Yard, they can imagine life in the foreboding sandstone cellhouses, see the contrasting beauty of the historic rose gardens, and view the effects of the 1973 riot. They may also visit Solitary Confinement, known as "Siberia," as well as Death Row and the Gallows.

The site offers a short film, exhibits, and educational programs.

Wyoming Territorial Prison

Description

Built in 1872, the Prison held some of the most notorious outlaws in the region, including Butch Cassidy. Visitors to the 190- cre facility can also enjoy the newly restored Warden's House and Horse Barn Exhibit Hall featuring rotating displays and a family-friendly scavenger hunt.

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

Missouri Headwaters State Park [MT]

Description

This park encompasses the confluence of the Jefferson, Madison, and Gallatin Rivers. Lewis and Clark anticipated this important headwaters all the way up the Missouri River. An easy three-mile drive off Interstate 90 at Three Forks, this undeveloped park provides outdoor interpretive signs, picnic spots, short hiking trails, a small campground, and—just as the Corps of Discovery found—plenty of mosquitoes!

The site offers occasional recreational and educational events.

Giant Springs State Park [MT]

Description

This historic freshwater springs site was discovered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1805— it is one of the largest freshwater springs in the world, flowing at a measured 156 million gallons of water per day. This day-use park gives visitors an opportunity to picnic by the Missouri River, visit the fish hatchery and visitor center, walk along the Rivers Edge Trail, view nearby Rainbow Falls overlook, or visit the neighboring Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center operated by the U.S. Forest Service.

The site offers exhibits and occasional recreational and educational events.

Fort Owen State Park [MT]

Description

Fort Owen's adobe and log remains preserve the site of the first permanent white settlement in Montana. Major John Owen established the fort as a regional trade center in 1850 and period furnishings and artifacts are displayed in the restored rooms of the east barracks. In 30 minutes, visitors can browse through a small museum housed in preserved and partially reconstructed structures.

The site offers exhibits and occasional recreational and educational events.