"Headquartered in this exquisite federal home of William Kimball Eastman, the CHS serves all areas of the Conways. The museum features period rooms representing 1818 through 1945. Eastman Lord House Museum in Conway was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001."
"The Fairview Area Historical Society was formed in 1976. Its purpose is to preserve the history of the Fairview area. Local attractions include the Sturgeon House, a museum, depository of local historical and genealogical data and a meeting place."
Guided tour of the Kenan family ancestral home, a restored Southern plantation of the 1800s. Eleven rooms, 12 dependencies including garden shop, wine cellar, carriage house, servants quarters, chicken house, smokehouse, overseer's cottage, woodshed, tool house, wash shed and necessary house(bathhouse and privy). Also, Visitor's Center Exhibit Hall, 13-minute video and gift shop. Herb garden and recently added rose garden. There is an admission charge.
"The Fulton Historical Society is located in this Civil War era home donated to the City by Leonard and Maxine Martin. The Society has taken over the operation of the home as a repository of information and materials relevant to the history of the City of Fulton and its inhabitants. In addition, the Society wishes to preserve the heritage of the community and provide educational opportunities for the purpose of increasing and enriching public knowledge."
The Hunterdon County Historical Society's library has been in existence since the Society was founded in 1885. In 1963, through the bequest of the late Hiram E. Deats, over 3,000 items were added. These included his personal library and notes on the places and families of Hunterdon County. Today, the library consists of 5,000 printed volumes, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, broadsides, and photographs gathered and preserved since the Society was founded.
The Library is housed in the Doric House, an 1846 Greek Revival structure furnished in authentic Hunterdon antiques of the period.
The House offers tours by appointment and access to the Library.
This classic early Dutch home on South Middlebush had been disguised for 276 years when the Meadows Foundation started its research and restoration. It will become the Meadows Foundation’s only house museum, with authentic exterior and interior finishes.
The house offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.
The farmstead dates to 1886. John Henry and Laura Ann Rawlins Hinkle built their Queen-Anne-style home in 1892. The Hinkles built a smaller, Free-Classic-style home on the property around 1910 for their son, Henry Ernest Hinkle, and his wife, Bertha Elizabeth Rogers. As an intact group of farm buildings from the Queen Anne era, it is the only such group in Bloomington and one of the few in Monroe County. Now 11.08 acres, the farmstead includes a Midwest three-portal dairy barn, grain crib, early garage, and blacksmith shed.
The farmstead offers tours.
The Winterthur Estate in Delaware offers aid to qualified groups, which can cover student admission fees, transportation costs of up to $250 per day, and outreach program fees.
Aid is first-come, first-serve and may be applied for following reservations for a program at Winterthur; teachers must include in their application the diversity of student population; amount of state/federal aid their organization receives; who usually pays for museum programs or field trips; the total amount of request; date, time, and name of program reserved; and the number of children receiving free or reduced lunch.
Historian John Michael Vlach looks at the stables at Hampton National Historic Site. He talks about the work slaves did in these stables, including as stablehands and jockeys, during the antebellum period.
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Historian John Michael Vlach briefly considers how the different living quarters at Hampton National Historic Site reflect the status hierarchy of their occupants, from the main estate mansion to the overseer's house to the slave quarters.