Rice Couny Historical Society, Museum, and Alexander Faribault House [MN]

Description

The Society's Rice County Museum of History contains a collection of objects, images, and artifacts ranging from prehistory to the present day. The exhibits are variable, as the Society rotates its collection through its display space. Behind the museum, visitors may explore the Historical Village, including the Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, the 1850s Pleasant Valley School, the 1857 Volg Log Cabin, and the Harvest and Heritage Halls. The Society also maintains and operates the Alexander Faribault House, built in the Greek Revival style in 1853 by Alexander Faribault for a cost of $4,000.00. The Faribault family lived in the house for a few years, moving later to a large brick mansion on the bluffs overlooking the Straight River. The house was used as a civic center and as a private home. Today, the Faribault House displays pieces belonging to the Faribault family and other early settlers.

The museum offers a slide show, exhibits, tours, educational programs, and research library access; the Faribault House offers tours.

Mission Mill Museum [OR]

Description

Mission Mill Museum interprets the history of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill which produced wool products from 1889 to 1962 and represents one of Oregon's earliest and strongest industries. Mission Mill also interprets the history of Jason Lee's Methodist Mission to Oregon which settled in the Willamette Valley in 1834 before the major Oregon Trail migrations. The missionaries brought formal education, industry, and large scale agriculture and advocated for U.S. government in the Oregon country. The Museum preserves Mission houses; an Oregon Trail settler's house; a historic church; and the structures, equipment, and original water-powered turbine of the Thomas Kay Woolen Mill with related artifacts. The museum's two histories are shared with visitors through individual and group tours, interpretation, speakers, living history, children's programs, hands-on activities, and special events.

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

Rock Hall [NY]

Description

Rock Hall is an exceptional example of 18th-century high-style architecture. Built for Loyalist Josiah Martin in 1767, Georgian/Federal interiors and furnishings evoke the lifestyle of a wealthy merchant.

The site offers tours.

Sherwood-Jayne House [NY]

Description

The 18th-century Sherwood-Jayne house is located in a bucolic setting with sheep grazing in the adjoining pasture. Hand-painted floral wall frescoes imitating expensive wallpaper decorate the east parlor. The property has retained its 19th-century agrarian context—hayfields, meadows, woodlot, and orchard.

The site offers tours and educational programs.

Custom House [NY]

Description

Sag Harbor became a United States port of entry in 1789, with a growing population involved in servicing whalers, coasters, and West Indian trade ships. The Custom House was owned by Sag Harbor's first United States Custom Master, Henry Packer Dering. The daily activities of Dering, his wife, and nine children are vividly portrayed in the room settings of a formal dinner, office, children's room, kitchen, pantry, and laundry.

The house offers tours and educational programs.

Lloyd Manor [NY]

Description

Lloyd Manor, built in 1766, is a handsome structure with fine interior woodwork by Connecticut craftsmen. Located in a spectacular setting overlooking Lloyd harbor, the grounds contain a formal garden. The house is furnished to the 1793 inventory of John Lloyd II. Lloyd Manor was the home of Jupiter Hammon, a slave who became the first published black poet. Interpretive exhibits provide the history and documentation for the installation.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and educational programs.

Wyoming Territorial Prison

Description

Built in 1872, the Prison held some of the most notorious outlaws in the region, including Butch Cassidy. Visitors to the 190- cre facility can also enjoy the newly restored Warden's House and Horse Barn Exhibit Hall featuring rotating displays and a family-friendly scavenger hunt.

The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).

Massasoit Historical Association and Maxwell House [RI]

Description

The Maxwell House was built between 1752 and 1756 by the Reverend Samuel Maxwell. The house, which is the oldest brick dwelling in Warren, is distinguished by the distinctive Flemish bond pattern of the brickwork, its field stone foundation, and its large central chimney. The Maxwell House is maintained by the Society as a working museum.

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

Gilbert Stuart Birthplace [RI]

Description

The Birthplace serves as a showplace for reproductions of the works of one of America's foremost portrait painters and as an authentically restored and furnished workingman's home and the site of the first snuff mill in America. The wooded homestead on the banks of the Mattatuxet Brook also features a partially restored grist mill and a fish ladder. In spring the ladder is packed with migrating herring, swimming furiously to reach the pond above the mill dam. The grist mill houses the original fine-grained granite stones used to grind corn for the famous Rhode Island Johnny Cakes.

The site offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.

Cordell Hull Birthplace and Museum [TN]

Description

The site consists of a representation of Hull's log cabin birthplace, an activities center, and a museum housing documents and artifacts. Also on the park is beautiful Bunkum Cave Trail leading to an overlook and the actual entrance of historic Bunkum Cave where Cordell Hull's father made moonshine years ago. The collection includes his Nobel Peace Prize that is on display.

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