Phelps Mansion Museum [NY]

Description

The Mansion was built in 1870 for Sherman D. Phelps, a successful banker, businessman, Republican Elector for Abraham Lincoln, and mayor of the newly incorporated City of Binghamton.

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

History Colorado Museums and Historic Sites

Description

History Colorado, the Colorado Historical Society, is a Smithsonian Affiliate that operates a variety of museums and historic sites in locations throughout the state that each highlight different periods of Colorado's history — from Victorian house museums, military and trapper/trader forts, an operating historic steam train and tour of a historic silver mine mine to a host of historical museums, such as the Ute Indian Museum, El Pueblo History Museum, Trinidad History Museum, and more. The main museum in Denver, where its rich historical collections are housed, has closed and will be replaced by the History Colorado Center, which is under construction. As a new statewide tourist destination, a thought-provoking center for civic conversation and an environment that encourages an inspirational journey into the future by understanding the past, the History Colorado Center will house all new, highly dynamic exhibits and educational experiences. During the construction period, History Colorado's education department continues to offer workshops, lectures, walking tours, and other educational and recreational events in Denver, as well as special events taking place at the statewide museums. Contact the education department for more information.

In addition to the new museum and education/public programs, the History Colorado Center will contain the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, the State Historical Fund, the State Historic Preservation Office, the Stephen H. Hart Research Library, and other History Colorado functions. Administrative functions will open in 2011. The opening date for the museum and public programs is not yet set.

Friends of the James Farm and Museum [MO]

Description

Until 1978, the James farm was owned by the descendents of Frank and Jesse James. Today, a museum has been added to the site, displaying Jesse James and James family artifacts including three of Jesse's guns; the boots he was wearing when he was killed; and the family Bible, with inscriptions written in Zerelda's own hand. The farm and house look much as they did when Zerelda was giving the tours and is fully furnished with items that belonged to the James and Samuel families.

The museum and farm offer exhibits, tours, and research library access.

Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry [NY]

Description

The Seneca Museum celebrates historic Seneca Falls, Seneca County, and the Finger Lakes region of central New York State. The Museum illustrates how the Seneca River and the Cayuga-Seneca Canal powered the rise of industry and fostered cultural development, helping to spread social reform movements.

The museum offers exhibits and educational and recreational programs and events.

Rosson House Museum [AZ]

Description

This 2,800 square foot beautiful Eastlake architectural style Victorian home built in 1895 features 10 rooms and five fireplaces. Visitors can see what life was like for Rosson House residents of Block 14, owners and tenants both, in early Phoenix during Arizona's late territorial times all in its original location.

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

Eureka Fire Museum [NJ]

Description

The Museum displays historic firefighting equipment and memoriabilia. The most prominent items in the museum's collection are two fire engines, a 1921 American LaFrance and an 1899 Wilkes hand-drawn hose cart. Among the thousands of badges, patches, sprinkler heads, and firefighting gear are many unusual items, including a burlap "salvage bag" and a wooden Japanese fire extinguisher.

The museum offers exhibits.

Clinton County Historical Association and Museum [NY]

Description

The Association's Museum displays exhibits interpreting the area's history from the earliest recorded times (1600) to the present day through its collections of paintings, maps, furniture and decorative arts. Special exhibits are regularly presented on North Country themes, including iron mining and other 19th-century industries. Collections feature Redford Glass, Staffordshire china, portraiture, photographs, and textiles.

The society offers lectures and occasional educational and recreational events; the museum offers exhibits and tours.

Columbia River Maritime Museum [OR]

Description

The Museum features interactive exhibits that combine history and technology. Visitors of all ages will experience what it is like to pilot a tugboat, participate in a Coast Guard rescue on the Columbia River Bar, and live in Astoria during the height of the salmon fishing. Huge windows make the Columbia River a living backdrop for classic fishing vessels and Coast Guard rescue craft. Visitors can experience first hand how the Bar Pilots work the dangerous wind and waves during a fierce winter storm in the award-winning orientation film "The Great River of the West." They can walk on board the bridge of a World-War-II-era US Navy Destroyer; see the world-class collection of maritime artifacts; and then walk out to the dock to explore the Lightship Columbia, a floating lighthouse.

The museum offers a short film, exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational events and programs.