Camp Dennison, just outside of Cincinnati, was a military training camp and hospital camp during the Civil War. Today, visitors to Camp Dennison will find the 1804 Waldschmidt House Historical Museum and the Ohio Civil War Museum on site. The area offers information and insight into the Civil War and the happenings at Camp Dennison during this time period.
The museum offers tours, exhibits, and educational and recreational programs.
The Charlotte Museum of History and Hezekiah Alexander Homesite comprise multiple venues on an eight-acre wooded campus in east Charlotte. The oldest structure, and the reason for the museum's location, is the Hezekiah Alexander Homesite, a 5,000-square-foot rock house. The Hezekiah Alexander House is the oldest surviving house in Mecklenburg County. Listed on the National Register for Historic Places, it was built circa 1774 and still stands on its original site. The house is accompanied by a reproduction log kitchen and reconstructed two-story springhouse. The Museum itself occupies a 36,000-square-foot building and displays three galleries' worth of displays taking the Charlotte-Mecklenburg story from the 18th to the 20th century.
The museum and site offer exhibits, guided and self-guided tours for school groups, museum-on-the-go traveling trunks, programs for homeschoolers, and other educational and recreational events (including living history events).
The Society seeks to promote and preserve the natural, civil, literal, and ecclesiastical history of the Harbor area in general and the City of Costa Mesa in particular. The Society's museum present exhibits tracing the area's history from prehistory to the present day. The Society also maintains the Diego Sepulveda Adobe (the Estancia), the history of which stretches back to the 1700s. Four distinct periods of California history are represented in the rooms of the Estancia—Indian, Mission, Spanish, and Victorian—and the Society has used these periods as guidelines for furnishing the Adobe.
The museum and adobe offers exhibits and tours.
This beautiful plantation represents the history and culture of Georgia's rice coast. In the early 1800s, William Brailsford of Charleston carved a rice plantation from marshes along the Altamaha River. The plantation and its inhabitants were part of the genteel low-country society that developed during the antebellum period. While many factors made rice cultivation increasingly difficult in the years after the Civil War, the family continued to grow rice until 1913.
Today, at the plantation, a museum features silver from the family collection and a model of Hofwyl-Broadfield during its heyday. A brief film on the plantation's history is shown before visitors walk a short trail to the antebellum home. A guided tour allows visitors to see the home as Ophelia kept it with family heirlooms, 18th- and 19th-century furniture and Cantonese china. As one of the Colonial Coast Birding Trail sites, Hofwyl-Broadfield offers a nature trail that leads back to the Visitors Center along the edge of the marsh where rice once flourished.
The plantation offers exhibits, a film, and tours.
Maintained by the Fairfield Heritage Organization, the 1811 Sherman House was the birthplace of General William Tecumseh Sherman and his brother, U.S. Senator John Sherman, and has been restored and furnished to period. Exhibits in the space include Sherman family memorabilia; a recreation of General Sherman's Civil War field tent including several items he used during the war; and a sound and light presentation depicting his passion for the Union.
The Georgian Museum is housed in an 1832 Federal-style home has been restored and furnished today as it would have been in the 1830s with some original pieces and numerous early Fairfield County items.
Both museums offer exhibits and tours, as well as educational programs.
The Pleasant Home, also known as the John Farson House, was designed in 1897 by noted Prairie Style architect George W. Maher for investment banker and philanthropist John W. Farson. This makes the house one of the earliest and most distinguished examples of the Prairie School of architecture and earned it National Historic Landmark status.
The home offers tours.
The Society maintains the 1717 Reverend Daniel Putnam House as a museum. Volunteer tour guides, dressed in period costume, explain how daily chores were accomplished in the 1700s, and often cook popular dishes of the day over the kitchen fire.
The house offers tours.
The Sunnyvale Historical Society operates a museum in the restored 1950 Murphy House. The Society's primary mission is to expand the education program offered by the society for third and fourth graders studying local and California history. This program is the only hands-on learning program in the area and is beyond capacity and demand from local schools. The Society's intent is to expand the program to educate 3,000 area students per year.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, a film, and educational programs.
Hearthside is a unique stone mansion built in 1810 on pastoral Great Road, the first road through the wilderness between Providence and Mendon, MA, and one of the oldest thoroughfares in America. Complimenting the historical site is the adjacent Hannaway Blacksmith Shop.
The homestead offers tours, demonstrations, and recreational and educational events.
The Society's mission is to preserve the past and present for viewing in the future. The museum, housed in an 1871 Italianate Victorian house, displays several Victorian-era decorated rooms, including a parlor and a kitchen. The Society also has a collection of clothing, toys, pictures, and maps, as well as artifacts and memorabilia on high school teacher Walter Duhrban of Walt's Workshop, a 1950s TV show. The history of Ravinia Park is also preserved here.
The museum offers exhibits.