The Historical Society and Museum for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection seeks to preserve and share the history of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, founded in 1905.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Pultneyville Historical Society seeks to preserve and present the history of Williamson Township, New York. To this end, the society offers exhibits within a circa 1858 home. Exhibits address the life and work of Horatio Nelson Throop, the 1898 loss of the schooner St. Peter, and local history as depicted through photography. Throop was a boat builder and captain. In the 1830s, he conducted experiments with wind and screw propeller propulsion systems. He was also active in the Underground Railroad. The society owns a collection of artifacts recovered from the wreck of the St. Peter.
The society offers exhibits and archival access. Appointments are required for archival access.
The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum contains permanent exhibits about Native Americans, Ohio history, East Asia, and 18th- and 19th-century European and American art, as well as art and history temporary exhibits. Native American artifacts date to prehistory and the 19th century. The East Asian collection includes artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries, decorative arts, and weaponry.
The museum offers exhibits, guided tours for children, hands-on activities, and educational outreach programs.
Built circa 1748, the Noah Webster House is the restored birthplace and childhood home of the lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1843). Today, the museum building includes the historical house, library, archives, and a modern exhibition gallery.
The house and society offer exhibits, tours, reference library access, educational programs, and recreational and educational events.
The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum, housed in the former corporate headquarters of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Company, interprets the rise of the copper mining industry in the region. The Museum also maintains the Muheim Heritage House Museum, an 1898 home restored to its turn-of-the-century state.
The museum offers exhibits and research library access; the Muheim Heritage House offers tours.
The Acadian Village presents daily life and society within 19th-century Acadian Southern Louisiana. Seven of the 11 site structures are restored historic residences containing local period furnishings. Exhibit topics include Cajun music; spinning; weaving; medicine; and Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc (1894-1971), who strove to preserve Cajun culture. Replica period settings include a blacksmith shop, chapel, home, and schoolhouse; while the LeBlanc exhibit is located within the senator's birth home.
The village offers exhibits, period rooms, and self-guided tours. Reservations are appreciated for group visits. Picnics are encouraged. Tour brochures are available in English and French. The village is open January through October.
The Martha's Vineyard Museum houses centuries of the island's history dating back to the pre-Columbian period. Its collections relate to all aspects of life on Martha's Vineyard, and include agricultural, hunting and fishing tools, costumes, decoys, artwork, armaments, fossils, maritime and whaling related tools and more. The museum is steward of the Gay Head, East Chop and Edgartown lighthouses.
The site offers education programs designed with Massachusetts state education standards in mind for grades K-12. Lighthouse tours are also offered. It has an interactive website on 19th Century Whaling and a young girl's experience on a whaling voyage, http://www.girlonawhaleship.org
The Hoard Museum is a local history museum focused on the historical heritage of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Thus, the museum covers a very broad range of historical events, ranging from the 1832 Black Hawk War to the lives of William Dempster Hoard, the father of the Wisconsin Dairy Industry, and Lorine Niedecker, a world famous poet.
The museum offers exhibits, guided tours, the Hoard's Historians Enrichment Series, and periodic presentations. The website offers visitor information, historical information regarding Fort Atkinson, and a calendar of events.
White Hall State Historic Site was first built in 1798 and remodeled in the 1860s. The original home was a two-story Georgian structure, but during the remodeling in the 1860s, the home was rebuilt in Italianate style and greatly enlarged. The house was home to the Clay family, including the noted emancipationist Cassius Clay and his daughter, Laura Clay, who was the first woman to be nominated by a major party for US President.
The home offers guided tours, field trip programs, and exhibits that showcase artifacts from the Clay family. The website offers a photo gallery of the home, a calendar of events, visitor information, and a history of the home.
The Naugatuck Historical Society seeks to preserve and share the history of Naugatuck, Connecticut and the surrounding area. To this end, the society operates a museum of local history, located within the 1910 Naugatuck Railroad Station.
The society offers exhibits, outreach programs for students, and hands-on activities. Museum field trips are available by reservation only.