The East Contra Costa Historical Society is located in Brentwood, California, and is headquarted in a historic home that serves as both a local history museum and as a historic house museum.
The museum offers exhibits, period rooms, and guided tours. The website offers photographs of the home, visitor information, and a brief history of the area.
The St. James's House was built around 1768 and is one of the few 18th-century frame houses still standing in Fredericksburg. The house is particularly noted for the collection of antique furniture and decorative arts assembled by Daniel Breslin and William Tolerton, who restored St. James's in the mid-1960s. St. James's represents Messrs Breslin's and Tolerton's interpretation of an 18th-century townhouse in that the furnishings are probably more formal than what would have been in the house during the time of its original owner.
The house is open for tours by appointment.
Historic Forestville presents life in 1899 Forestville, Minnesota. Once a bustling trade center, in 1868 the Southern Minnesota Railroad built tracks elsewhere, bypassing the town and significantly impacting its economy. 31 years later, the town's 50 residents all worked for Thomas Meighen (1855-1936); and were paid in housing and store credit. The historic town is interpreted via living history docents, who depict the Meighens and their employees. Five historic structures remain on site: the store, Meighen home, barn, carriage barn, and granary. All crops on site are heirloom varieties and are open pollinated.
The site offers one-hour tours guided by living history figures, costumed interpreters, demonstrations, heirloom crops, and summer camps. The website offers historic photographs and a suggested reading list.
The Hinsdale Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation of the unique historical heritage of Hinsdale, from its founding as a small farming village to its modern day status as a suburb of Chicago. The society owns and operates four historic properties, the Hinsdale History Museum, the R. Harold Zook Home and Studio, the Historic Immanuel Hall, and the Anderson Architecture Center.
The society offers guided individual and group tours of its historic properties and special events. The website offers an events calendar, a history of the society, a history of Hinsdale, and visitor information.
The Jonathan Corwin House, also known as The Witch House, served as the residence of Jonathan Corwin (1640-1718), magistrate and judge in the Salem Witch Trials. The court in which he worked issued the death sentence to 19 individuals, none of which would admit to the crime of witchcraft. The home itself dates to before 1675, and is the only residence in Salem with a direct connection to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Topic covered include the trials and the daily life, decorative arts, and architecture of the period.
The house offers period rooms, guided tours, and self-guided tours.
The Village Green Heritage Center presents the history of the Palm Springs area, California. The center is located in two historic structures. The 1884 McCallum Adobe, built for the area's first permanent settler of European descent, houses vernacular items, textiles, Native American artifacts, artworks, and photographs. The 1893 Little House, built of used railroad ties, is set to period.
The center offers period rooms and exhibits.
The Old Stone House Museum contains 25 rooms of exhibits on 19th-century life in Vermont. The museum consists of six buildings spread over 55 acres, with the largest being Athenian Hall, a stone dormitory. The dormitory was built between 1834 and 1836 by the nation's first African American college graduate and state legislator, Reverend Alexander Twilight. Other structures on-site include Twilight's own home and an English-style barn.
The museum offers self-guided tours, hands-on activities, educational programs, and living history outreach presentations. The website offers several scavenger hunts.
The Old Governer's Mansion in Georgia is one of the nation's first examples of High Greek Revival architecture in the nation. The mansion was completed in 1839, and served as the mansion of the governor of Georgia until the Civil War. The building was placed on the national register of historic places in 1973, and currently stands as a historic house museum.
The mansion offers visitors guided tours, curator's tours, interpretive events, and occasional special events. The website offers lesson plans and field trip guides, visitor information, a history of the mansion, a virtual tour, and information regarding upcoming events.
The Old Constitution House State Historic Site commemorates the 1777 signing of the Vermont constitution.The Vermont constitution was far reaching—the first to prohibit slavery, establish universal voting rights for all males, and authorize a public school system. This document guided the Republic for 14 years until 1791, when Vermont was admitted to the Union as the 14th state. An exhibit recounts the writing of the most progressive constitution of its time, and examines its effect on the politics of the nation. The site includes the tavern where the document was originally adopted.
The site offers period rooms and an exhibit.
"Calico was developed in 1881 during the largest silver strike in California. Located at the side of towering King Mountain, the town was named for the variety of colors in the mountain that were "as purty as a gal's calico skirt." Calico boomed during 1881-1896; but the end came to the silver rush in 1896 and by 1904 Calico had become a ghost town." Today, Calico is a fully restored living history location and contains a museum. Visitors to Calico can tour the historic structures that have been restored to their late 1800s state and interact with trained historical interpreters.
The site offers visitor information, an events calendar, museum information, and an area map.