The E. St. Julien Cox House is the fully restored 1871 Italianate style home of Eugene Cox, a prominent statesman who served as mayor of St. Peter as well as in the State House and Senate.
Student group tours are led by costumed guides and educational programs are offered.
Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park is recognized as one of America's most intact Civil War battlefields. The park has a museum and a collection of early Ozark buildings to tour, and interprets the effects of the Civil War on the civilian population in this area. The park protects the battle site and interprets the Battle of Prairie Grove, where on December 7, 1862, the Confederate Army of the Trans-Mississippi clashed with the Union Army of the Frontier in a day of fierce fighting.
The site offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Frederick County Landmarks Foundation maintains two historic sites, the Beatty-Cramer House Site and the Schifferstadt Architectural Museum. The Beatty-Cramer House is the oldest home in Frederick County, dating back to 1732. The Schifferstadt Architectural Museum is colonial German stone house built in 1758. Both sites teach about Frederick County's local history and architecture, focusing on the era of the French and Indian War.
The Beatty-Cramer House offers school tours and occasional education programs. The Schifferstadt Architectural Museum offers occasional educational programs for students and specialized lesson plans for 3rd and 4th grade Maryland teachers.
The original section of the Hermitage House was built in the mid-18th century and visited by George Washington and his staff during the Revolutionary War. In 1845, the house was transformed by architect William Ranlett into one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in North America.
The site offers exhibits, tours, research library access, educational programs, lectures, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Brooklyn Park Historical Farm, a 10-acre farmstead established more than a century ago, recreates Minnesotan farm life from 1890 to 1910. Interpreters demonstrate the chores of daily life on the farm for visitors.
The site offers living history demonstrations, tours, and other recreational and educational events.
The Calvert County Historical Society owns the historic Linden home and has created a museum with local historical artifacts. The collection includes family papers, wills, Bibles, photographs, and other primary documents that tell the history of Calvert County.
Groups may tour the house museum and use the museum's local history Research Library.
The Colonel Davenport Historical Foundation maintains the Federal-style 1833 house of George Davenport, a colonel in the US Army. The house was built as an outpost for the US government in the process of expanding and exploring the West. Davenport spent time as a fur-trader while living in the home and the site's interpretation reflects the home's settler history.
The museum offers guided tours by trained docents for school groups. The site also offers a travelling trunk filled with pre-visit activities for use a week before a field trip.
The John Jay Homestead State Historic Site maintains the 1801 home of Founding Father John Jay who served as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme court and co-authored the Treaty of Paris, among his many other accomplishments. The home is interpreted as an 1820's country home with 12 or its 24 rooms decorated and open to the public for tours.
Specialized tours and education programs are available by appointment. School groups may also tour the 1820's schoolhouse and the 1830s barn as wells as the formal gardens on the property.
The Willard House and Clock Museum is housed in the original 1718 home of clockmaker Joseph Willard. Willard's descendents went on to become some of America's most famous clockmakers and the museum houses many original creations of the family.
Upon making reservations, groups may visit the museum and tour for approx. an hour for a small fee.
Visitors to this site can step back in time to the humble dwelling of the "Good Gray Poet," Walt Whitman. Constructed in 1848, this modest wooden-framed structure built in Greek-revival style was the only home ever owned by Walt Whitman. Here is where Whitman grew to international fame as the author of Leaves of Grass, hosted visitors from around the world, and completed his last comprehensive volume of poetry before his death in 1892. Today, as a New Jersey State Historic Site and a National Historic Landmark, the restored Whitman House welcomes visitors from around the world who come to experience the last worldly surroundings of America's great "Poet of Democracy."
The house offers exhibits, tours, and occasional educational and recreational events.