Ohio Historical Society and Center

Description

Inside this unique structure, the Ohio Historical Society offers visitors a museum experience of Ohio's past and an Archives/Library that provides rich resources for genealogists and other researchers. The Center serves as the headquarters for the Ohio Historical Society and is the flagship museum of the Society's network of over 50 historic sites and museums.

The other historic sites and museums overseen by the Society are listed individually in this database.

The center offers exhibits, educational programs, lectures, research library access, and educational and recreational events.

Oklahoma History Center

Description

The Center is an 18-acre, 215,000-square-foot learning center exploring Oklahoma's history through geology, transportation, commerce, culture, aviation, heritage, and more. The Center houses five state-of-the-art galleries containing more than 200 hands-on audio, video, and computer activities. Outside the museum, the Red River Journey offers visitors a walking tour of the Red River Valley featuring land forms, vegetation, and important historical locations. The grounds also include an outdoor oilfield exhibit with drilling derricks, a portable derrick, and machinery associated with Oklahoma oil explorations.

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

San Joaquin Historical Society and Museum [CA]

Description

The Museum reveals the history of the San Joaquin region, from the Yokuts and Miwok through Captain Charles Weber (founder of Stockton and first farmer in the area) and the development of modern agriculture. The Museum has eight exhibition buildings, four historic buildings—including the Charles Weber cottage (1847) and Calaveras School (1866)—and features room dioramas of Weber family furnishings, a children's gallery, and large displays of hand tools and agricultural equipment.

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

El Pueblo History Museum [CO]

Description

The "Cultural Crossroads on the Arkansas," El Pueblo History Museum has always been a gathering place for diverse people and cultures. The site includes an 1840s-style adobe trading post and plaza, as well as the archaeological excavation for the original 1842 El Pueblo trading post. The museum building showcases the city's history and the various cultural and ethnic groups in Pueblo and the region. The site also features the Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byways Information Center.

The museum offers exhibits, tours, and educational programs.

Lincoln State Monument [NM]

Description

Lincoln State Monument manages most of the historical buildings in the community of Lincoln. This most widely visited state monument in New Mexico is part of a community frozen in time—the 1870s and 1880s. The monument includes 17 structures and outbuildings, 4 of which are open year-round and 2 more seasonally as museums. Most of the buildings in the community are representative of the Territorial Style of adobe architecture in the American Southwest. Lincoln is a town made famous by one of the most violent periods in New Mexico history. Today's visitors can see the Old Lincoln County Courthouse with museum exhibits that recount the details of the Lincoln County War and the historic use of the "House" as store, residence, Masonic Lodge, courthouse, and jail. Visitors walk in the footsteps of Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, and other famous and infamous characters of the Wild West, and trace the events of 1878 through the Courthouse and the Tunstall Store, which contains displays of the original 19th-century merchandise in the original shelving and cases. They can then continue through history by visiting the Dr. Woods House, defensive torreón (tower) for the village; the San Juan Mission Church; and the Montaño store. The Anderson-Freeman Museum features historical exhibits in a timeline starting with American Indian prehistory and ending with the Lincoln County War. A 12-minute video about the Lincoln County War and the community is shown throughout the day.

The site offers a short film, exhibits, and tours.

State Museum of Pennsylvania

Description

The State Museum of Pennsylvania covers all aspects of Pennsylvania history and holds significant collections, that relate to some of America's most seminal, well-known events as well as important historical individuals. From its outstanding Civil War exhibits, to notable artifacts representing the foundations of American industry as well as political history dating to the early republic, the State Museum is the only museum in the Commonwealth where the public can experience the full expanse of the state's heritage and its connections to the national experience.

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

Fort Humboldt State Historic Park [CA]

Description

This remote military post was established in 1853 to assist in conflict resolution between Native Americans and gold-seekers and settlers who had begun flooding into the area after the discovery of gold in the northern mines. Fort Humboldt was formally abandoned in 1870 and rapidly fell into decay. Today, only the hospital building remains out of the original fourteen structures. It is now a historical museum dedicated to telling the story of the Fort and the Native American groups, including the Wiyot, Hoopa and Yurok of this region. In the 1980s the Surgeon's Quarters was reconstructed and there are plans for its establishment as a period house museum. In 2001 an historic herb and vegetable garden was recreated adjacent to the Hospital. The park also includes a Logging Museum and open air displays of historic 19th- through mid-20th-century logging equipment including the Dolbeer Steam Donkey, "Lucy"; the Bear Harbor Lumber Company's Gypsy Locomotive #1; and the Elk River Mill and Lumber Company's #1 "Falk" locomotive.

The park offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events and programs.

Crawford County Historical Society and Baldwin Reynolds House Museum [Pennsylvania]

Description

The Society operates the Baldwin Reynolds House Museum. Built in 1843 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the house now displays artifacts from the Baldwin and Reynolds families, as well as other Crawford-area families; 23 rooms are on display, some outfitted to reflect their original use and others used for historical displays.

The society offers research library access and educational and recreational events; the museum offers exhibits and tours.

Princeville Historical Association and Heritage Center

Description

In partnership with the Princeville Civic Association, the Society operates the Princeville Heritage Center, a 15,000-square-foot facility which features living interpreted displays of antique agriculture equipment, steam-powered tractors and threshers, area artifacts, automobiles, sporting goods, and quilting. In addition to the original facility, the Society has also erected a second 8,400-square-foot building for agricultural equipment display. It displays old photographs, household items, area artifacts, steam-powered tractors, threshing equipment, grain binders, quilting, automobiles, gas engines, and numerous other items.

The center offers exhibits.