The Center seeks to help people use the tools of history to understand the past, gain perspective on the present, and play an informed role in shaping the future.
The center offers exhibits, tours, educational programs, research library access, and educational and recreational events.
The Foundation operates the Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, two living-history museums that explore America’s beginnings. Through film, artifact-filled galleries, and outdoor living history, these museums engage visitors in nearly two centuries of the nation's history—from the founding of America's first permanent English settlement in 1607 to the decisive Revolutionary War victory in 1781 and implementation of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Today at Jamestown Settlement, the story of the people who founded Jamestown and of the Virginia Indians they encountered is told through film, gallery exhibits, and living history. New gallery exhibits and a new introductory film trace Jamestown's beginnings in England and the first century of the Virginia colony and describe the cultures of the Powhatan Indians, Europeans, and Africans who converged in 1600s Virginia. Outdoors, visitors can board replicas of the three ships that sailed from England to Virginia in 1607, explore life-size recreations of the colonists' fort and a Powhatan village, and tour a riverfront discovery area to learn about European, Powhatan, and African economic activities associated with water. In the outdoor areas, costumed historical interpreters describe and demonstrate daily life in the early 17th century. Today at the Yorktown Victory Center, America's evolution from colonial status to nationhood is chronicled through a unique blend of timeline, film, thematic exhibits and outdoor living history. An outdoor exhibit walkway details events that led American colonies to declare independence from Britain.
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The sites offer short films, exhibits, tours, demonstrations, lectures, educational programs, and recreational and educational programs.
The Society operates its Museum out of a 19th-century saltbox know as the Garrison-Dickinson-Genung house. Two rooms are furnished to indicate a simple home of the late 1700s. The bedroom has a rope bed and our collection of children's clothes. Changing displays are on view in another room.
The society offers research library access; the museum offers exhibits and tours.
The Society's Museum displays artifacts related to local history.
The museum offers exhibits and research library access.
Old Fort Bedford was a British stockade built in 1758 as part of the French and Indian War campaign against the French at Fort Duquesne. After several failed attempts in the early 1750s, the British launched a major offensive against Fort Duquesne in 1758. Facing the formidable task of crossing the Allegheny Mountains and the treat of attack, numerous stockades were built along the way west. Fort Bedford was constructed as a key fortification along the military path Forbes Road and served as the staging area for the successful campaign. After the war Fort Bedford stood until the 1770s, used as a British outpost on the frontier and as a refuge from Indian attack as westward migration increased in the 18th century. Today, a reconstructed blockhouse structure houses a large-scale model of the original fort. The Museum displays Native American artifacts collected from the region. Thousands of household items dating back 100 to more than 200 years ago from flintlock rifles to early clothing to antique hand tools help to recreate the atmosphere of pioneer days on the frontier of western Pennsylvania.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Foundation operates several historic sites, including HistoryQuest and the Paca House. HistoryQuest features a comprehensive welcome center, offering tickets and reservations for tours, excursions, venues, and other events. Exhibits tell the stories of those who have lived and worked in Annapolis through the decades. The Paca House, restored home of William Paca, signer of the Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary-era Governor of Maryland, stands today as one of the most elegant landmarks in Annapolis.
The foundation offers tours and recreational and educational events; HistoryQuest offers tours and exhibits; the Paca House offers tours and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Society works to preserve, for public education and enjoyment, the culture, history, art, crafts, and aesthetic facets of the region, specifically El Rancho de la Nacion in South San Diego County. It operates a museum which displays exhibits on local history.
The museum offers exhibits
The Village incorporates a number of restored 1800s historical buildings. These include the 18801882 John Wright Mansion, the 1860s Merry School House, the 1848 Detterman Church, the 1836 Seymour House, several log homes and barns, a general store, a hardware store, a post office, and an ice house.
The site offers exhibits, tours, demonstrations, workshops, and recreational and educational events (including living history events).
The Society operates the Mather House Museum. Several historical structures, including the 1840-1860 Mather House, house exhibits related to local history, including displays of toys, spinning wheels, and quilts; a collection of items from old-fashioned barber shops, general stores, and butcher shops; Port Jefferson shipbuilding and sailmaking artifacts; and antique clocks.
The museum offers exhibits, tours, and occasional recreational and educational events.
The Society maintains this museum in an 1885 limestone house, home to early pioneers Timothy and Bridget Kyne. Among the featured pieces are a pie safe and table that were built by Timothy, as was the house itself. Two additions provide more display space, and the one-room Topsy School is also in the museum complex.
The museum offers exhibits.