Collegeville, Pennsylvania
This 18th century National Historic Landmark is still practicing today and adjoins a cemetary with tombstones dating back to 1729.The first church building of Augustus Lutheran Church is still standing and is the oldest unchanged Lutheran Church building in continuous use in the United States. The...
Aurora, Colorado
The Aurora History Museum is a community-based cultural center featuring changing history and decorative arts exhibits.The museum strives to reach more and more citizens with local history programs and introduce them to the museum as a cultural resource. Educational programs, tours, workshops and...
Weirsdale, Florida
This museum is housed within the Florida Carriage Museum and Resort, which boasts a large collection of historical carriages on its 400 acre resort.The Florida Carriage Museum & Resort is home to one of the worlds finest collections of carriages. Step back into the past and enjoy more than 160...
Prattville, Alabama
Residents of Autauga County, Ala., can go to the ACHA museum to research family history and other local documents.Residents of Autauga County, Ala., can go to the ACHA museum to research family history and other local documents.
The ACHA was born out of a sense of collective guilt after the Daniel...
Kokomo, Indiana
Showing around 100 antique and classic cars, the Automotive Heritage Museum displays the history and evolution of the automotive industry.The Pioneer Auto Club began showing cars in the early 1950's. Their early vision of an auto museum became reality in 1998. Visitors to the museum can wander...
Charleston, South Carolina
This center works to preserve and display the history of African Americans in Charleston and its surrounding areas.The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston was established in 1985. From its inception, the Center has served as a source of...
Lexington, Kentucky
This 12,000-square-foot museum, located in a hangar on Lexington's Blue Grass Airport, has displays on six military and 14 civilian aircraft from every era of America's aviation history.
Highlights include a Navy F-14 Tomcat, Marine Corps F-4 Phantom fighter, and an Air Force T-83 supersonic...
Avon, New York
The nearly 200-year old architecturally reknowned inn near Rochester, NY serves visitors meals as well as history.This stately, 19th-century Greek Revival mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, now serves as a venue for special occasions and as a restaurant Fridays through...
Fremont, North Carolina
This typical 19th-century family farm includes the main house, separate open-hearth kitchen, corn crib, and smokehouses. Found off the beaten path, two miles south of Fremont, the historic site features a mid-19th-century farmstead, including a house, kitchen, and outbuildings. The house is...
Aztec, New Mexico
At the Aztec Ruins, visitors can follow ancient passageways to a distant time and explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms.Aztec Ruins provides visitors an intimate opportunity to explore the ancient Puebloan “great house” known as...
Baltimore, Maryland
This museum holds the oldest, most diverse American railroad collection in the world.The Museum’s locomotive and rolling stock collection contains many unique examples of historically significant pieces from the B&O and other Maryland railroads and includes the finest collection of 19th century...
Ellicott City, Maryland
The oldest standing railroad station in the United States houses this museum in historic Ellicott City, Md.Housed in a 180-year-old railroad station that served as the terminus of the B&O Railroad, this museum explores the history of transportation and travel in early America. It does so...
Westerly, Rhode Island
This early Georgian-styled mansion was built circa 1734 for Dr. Joshua Babcock, who was Westerly's first physician and a Chief Justice of Rhode Island. Since the middle of the eighteenth century the Babcock-Smith House has stood amid an ever-changing area atop Granite Street in Westerly. One of...
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Museum serves as a repository for the cultural traditions of New Orleans’ urban society.The Backstreet Cultural Museum contains exhibits, artifacts, memorabilia, films and videos depicting Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs, and Traditional Jazz Funerals. These three elements...
Surry, Virginia
This historic home was built in 1665, modeled in the Jacobean style.It's not really a castle, nor was it the home of rebellion leader Nathaniel Bacon, but it is one of the oldest houses in America, built in 1665. Some of Bacon's men may have stayed at the home during the 1676 rebellion against Gov...
Badin, North Carolina
Visitors can follow the history of Badin through a collection of permanent and temporary displays at this local museum.The story of Badin township begancirca 10,000 B.C. when Native Americans camped on the hill above the falls of our river and fashioned spearheads from outcroppings of rhyolite rock...
Wailuku, Hawaii
Built in 1833 as the home of Edward and Caroline Bailey, Bailey House is now a museum showcasing Hawaiian culture, artifacts, paintings and furnishings from nineteenth-century Maui.The mission home, built on the site of the Royal compound of Kahekili, last ruling chief of Maui, served as the...
Baker, Florida
This museum merges local and living history, cataloguing pioneer artifacts and genealogical records.The Baker Block Museum specializes in local history. It has exhibits on a range of topics, from pioneer homelife to local military patriots, as well as a robust collection of historical documents and...
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Former 19th century estate of the wealthy Baker family, it now serves as the headquarters of the Blair County Historical Society. In 2001, a renovation was completed, returning the exterior to its original appearance.Baker Mansion was originally home to ironmaster Elias Baker and his family. Baker...
Meadville, Pennsylvania
Owned by the Crawford County Historical Society, this historic home has seen a variety of owners and renovations its 200-year history.First purchased in 1840 from by Justice Henry Baldwin from Squire Lord, the house has seen a number of owners and is an excellent resource for one looking to better...
Kokomo, Indiana
Showing around 100 antique and classic cars, the Automotive Heritage Museum displays the history and evolution of the automotive industry.The Pioneer Auto Club began showing cars in the early 1950's. Their early vision of an auto museum became reality in 1998. Visitors to the museum can wander through Kokomo's automotive history, beginning in 1894...
Charleston, South Carolina
This center works to preserve and display the history of African Americans in Charleston and its surrounding areas.The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston was established in 1985. From its inception, the Center has served as a source of community outreach on African-American issues. Between...
Lexington, Kentucky
This 12,000-square-foot museum, located in a hangar on Lexington's Blue Grass Airport, has displays on six military and 14 civilian aircraft from every era of America's aviation history.
Highlights include a Navy F-14 Tomcat, Marine Corps F-4 Phantom fighter, and an Air Force T-83 supersonic trainer. Visitors can also view the engine...
Avon, New York
The nearly 200-year old architecturally reknowned inn near Rochester, NY serves visitors meals as well as history.This stately, 19th-century Greek Revival mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, now serves as a venue for special occasions and as a restaurant Fridays through Sundays.
Fremont, North Carolina
This typical 19th-century family farm includes the main house, separate open-hearth kitchen, corn crib, and smokehouses. Found off the beaten path, two miles south of Fremont, the historic site features a mid-19th-century farmstead, including a house, kitchen, and outbuildings. The house is furnished with pieces from the period. A corn barn and...
Aztec, New Mexico
At the Aztec Ruins, visitors can follow ancient passageways to a distant time and explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms.Aztec Ruins provides visitors an intimate opportunity to explore the ancient Puebloan “great house” known as West Ruin. A self-guided 1/2 mile walk winds...
Clifton, Texas
The Bosque Museum chronicles Bosque County history through various exhibits, ranging from the Southwest's largest collection of Norwegian artifacts to firearms from nearly every U.S. conflict.Significant displays at the Bosque museum include an exhibit about the Paleo-Americans found in the Horn Shelter in Bosque County, an exhibit containing...
Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Through photographs and artifacts, the memorial’s museum explores the relocation of the Mescalero Apache and Navajo tribes from their ancestral lands, Dinétah to the Bosque Redondo Reservation.The center of a million-acre reservation known as the Bosque Redondo, this site represents a tragic period in American history. As Americans settled in the...
Evansville, Indiana
Named after Evansville mayor Benjamin Bosse, Bosse Field opened in 1915 and is one of the oldest ballparks in the United States.In its nine decades of baseball over a dozen minor league teams have played their home games at Bosse Field; however, it currently hosts the Evansville Otters, a franchise in the independent Frontier League. Bosse Field...
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston African American National Historic Site is comprised of the largest area of pre-Civil War black owned structures in the U.S.It has roughly two dozen sites on the north face of Beacon Hill. These historic buildings were homes, businesses, schools, and churches of a thriving black community that, in the face of great opposition, fought the...
Boston, Massachusetts
All within reach of downtown Boston, the Harbor Islands allows visitors to walk a Civil War-era fort and visit historic lighthouses.Many of the Boston Harbor Islands contain buildings and structures related to such uses as coastal defense, agriculture, commercial fishing, year-round and summer habitation, resort life, industry, public health,...
Sedalia, Missouri
Visitors can tour the lodge and enjoy the natural beauty of Stonyridge Farm while hiking Stonyridge Trail.Sitting atop a 120-foot bluff, Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site can't be missed by travelers heading north on Highway 65 from Sedalia. This castle-like building was constructed between 1897 and 1928 for a prominent Sedalia lawyer, John Homer...
Boulder City, Nevada
Located in the Historic Boulder Dam Hotel, the museum focuses on the lives of those who witnessed and participated in the construction of the Hoover Dam.
Located in the Historic Boulder Dam Hotel, the museum focuses on the lives of those who witnessed and participated in the construction of the Hoover Dam.
The Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum tells...
Goodlettsville, Tennessee
Built by Revolutionary War Captain William Bowen, this house was recently restored and open to visitors.Captain William Bowen was awarded land grants for military services during the Revolutionary War and the home was built around 1787. He and his wife, Mary, brought four young children to the frontier, and soon Captain Bowen and Mary had ten...
Flushing, New York
A microcosm of 300 years of social, cultural and political history, Bowne House (ca. 1661) is the oldest house in Queens and among the oldest in New York City.It was built by John Bowne, who emigrated from England to Boston in 1649 and settled in Flushing, Queens, when New York was under Dutch Rule. His family prospered in America: the nine...
Boydton, Virginia
Ever since its oldest portion was built in 1790, this prominent Boydton landmark has seen more than two centuries of enlargements and expansion. Today its period rooms and exhibits relate the story of the region's growth.The original Boyd Tavern was constructed in 1790, consisting of a small one-story dwelling & tavern. Around 1816, the...
Windsor, Virginia
This historic tavern was named after Major Francis Boykin, who served as a lieutenant with Patrick Henry and later camped with George Washington at Valley Forge.Boykin inherited this land in 1780, as well as the house that had stood there since 1762. A smart businessman, he donated land for the Isle of Wight Courthouse of 1800 and even helped pay...
Big Horn, Wyoming
This ranch, featuring an 1892 house, is both an artifact of a gentleman's working ranch during the 1920s and 30s and a museum displaying fine art and historic and Native American artifacts.The Ranch House on the Quarter Circle A Ranch, on the National Register of Historic Places, was built in 1892 by William Moncreiffe, renovated and enlarged by...
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
The Brandywine Battlefield Historic Site brings to life the largest engagement of the Revolutionary War, fought on September 11, 1777, between the Continental Army and the British forces.On September 11, 1777, the Patriot army under George Washington came face to face with the British forces under William Howe, resulting in the largest single...
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Built during the Great Depression to serve as the City’s main library, this building was rededicated as a city cultural facility in 1981. Its focus is the history and culture of the region.The Branigan Cultural Center is comprised of several small galleries and the larger Shannon Room, which is a temporary exhibition gallery and performance...
Brecksville, Ohio
By maintaining the Squire Rich House Museum, the association encourages education of the Western Preserve and its relevance to to the original Brecksville land grant area.The Brecksville Historical Association maintains the Squire Rich House Museum, barn, and tool shed with furnishings and implements that show life in Brecksville from its founding...
Louisville, Kentucky
This historic home, once residence to the Brennan family, is the last remaining private residence in Louisville's downtown business district. The three story, red brick Italianate-style home is furnished in a Victorian interior, and has remained virtually untouched since that era. The Brennans occupied the home from 1884 to 1969, and it still...
Cocoa, Florida
This museum hosts a wide array of exhibits and dioramas addressing everything from pre-history, including the excavation of 7,000-year-old skeletons, to humanity's ascent past the atmosphere.Colorful dioramas depicting the area from the days of woolly mammoths and saber tooth cats to the modem era of rockets and space shuttles show visitors the...
Tupelo, Mississippi
The Confederate victory at Brices Cross Roads was a significant victory for Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, but its long term effect on the war proved costly for the Confederates.Near the monument, visitors can study two signs that provide information about the battle. Beyond the one-acre memorial site though, there are other areas worth...
Kennebunk, Maine
The museum strives to preserve the rich heritage of the Kennebunks for visitors through the collection, preservation, interpretation and exhibition of its material culture.The Brick Store Museum houses the largest collection of World War I and II posters in all of Maine. There are more than 70,000 items in the museum's collections, dating from the...
Bridgehampton, New York
There are a number of buildings on the grounds of the society, including the William Corwith House, the Strong Wheelwright Shop, the Old Bridgehampton Jail, and the Russell Simons Engine Barn & Tractor Barn.The Corwith house was built c. 1840 by William Corwith (1791-1872). At least part of the structure appears to pre-date the 1840's and may...
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
Focusing on Chippewa Falls's Robert Cray and his supercomputer, this museum explores the industries of the Chippewa Falls area.The museum has a large collection of supercomputers. This collection is representative of years of hard work at Cray Research, Inc., one of the first and foremost supercomputing companies This exhibit offers not only the...
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Located in Carson Park and surrounded by Half Moon Lake, the Chippewa Valley Museum explores the past of the Eau Claire area, from the native Chippewa tribe and the fur traders to the last century.The Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indians have lived in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin for 300 years. Paths of the People, a major exhibit at the Chippewa Valley...
Surry, Virginia
This 1,400-acre plantation located opposite Jamestown Island, includes an antebellum plantation home, farm buildings, and the Farm and Forestry Museum, which portrays Virginia's agricultural history.Chippokes Plantation State Park is one of the oldest working farms in the United States. Chippokes is a living historical exhibit located in a rural...
Willcox, Arizona
A “Wonderland of Rocks” is waiting for you to explore at Chiricahua National Monument.This forest of rock spires was eroded from layers of ash deposited by the Turkey Creek Volcano eruption 27 million years ago. The 8 mile paved scenic drive and 18 miles of day-use hiking trails provide opportunities to discover the beauty, natural...
Lindstrom, Minnesota
The society operates to preserve and celebrate the history of Chisago County, Minnesota.The Chisago County Historical Society provides a variety of educational programs year around. These range from monthly genealogy workshops to folk art demonstrations at local community festivals to special events featuring food, fellowship and guest speakers...
Duncan, Oklahoma
This museum invites the adventure of the great cattle drives and the settlers who helped create the legend that is the Chisholm Trail and the American West.By the end of the Civil War, Union and Confederate forces had consumed most of the beef east of the Mississippi. Joseph McCoy and Jesse Chisholm blazed a new trail in order to bring cattle...
Chittenango, New York
The museum gives visitors the opportunity to learn of canal boat-building and of the construction of the Erie Canal.
The museum gives visitors the opportunity to learn of canal boat-building and of the construction of the Erie Canal.
The Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum is located within the Old Erie Canal State Historic Park in...
Alexandria, Virginia
Located in Old Town Alexandria, this beautiful English country-style church was built by John Carlyle between 1767-1773.Christ Church was the first Episcopal Church in Alexandria and has played an important role in the life of the city since its completion by John Carlyle in 1773. The church was designed by James Wren in the colonial Georgian...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cited as the "finest Early American church," Christ Church was attended by and is now the final resting place for many of America's founding fathers.“No other church has played a more significant role in our nation’s birth”, according to historian David McCullough. Christ Church was founded in 1695 as a condition of...
Napoleonville, Louisiana
Built in 1853, this church served as a worship space and community center for English-speaking Protestants in a predominately French-speaking Roman Catholic community.One of the oldest Episcopal churches west of the Mississippi River, Christ Episcopal Church is located on Bayou Lafourche in the Napoleonville Parish. An excellent example of Gothic...
Christiansted, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
This park has 5 preserved historic structures and interprets the Danish economy and way of life in existence there from 1733 to 1917.Christiansted National Historic Site, on the island of St Croix in the Virgin Islands, was established in 1952 through the initiative of concerned local citizens. The park’s mandate is twofold - to preserve the...
Norfolk, Virginia
This expansive art museum showcases 30,000 objects spanning over 4,000 years.The Chrysler Museum of Art combines one of America's great fine arts museums and two significant historic houses. In addition to maintaining a distinguished permanent collection, the Chrysler offers a comprehensive program of changing exhibitions and education activities...
Memphis, Tennessee
The outdoor museum features an archaeological site and reconstructed Native American structures. Choctaw Indians act as guides and provide opportunities to view traditional craftwork activities.Located on the loess bluffs about 10 km south of downtown Memphis ,Tennessee, Chucalissa is a small Late Mississippian town that encompasses a 3 m tall...
San Germán, Puerto Rico
With trompe l'oeil painting that imitates wood coffers on the ceiling, the Church of San Germán's interior is one of the most lavishly decorated on the island.The Church of San Germán Auxerre overlooks the town of San Germán's main plaza. Spanish settlers founded San Germán parish in 1510 and built the first permanent...
Fallon, Nevada
The county museum records local history for the benefit of the community as well as visitors.
The county museum records local history for the benefit of the community as well as visitors.
The museum truly brings the past to life and its changing displays and programs involve the community and our guests in preserving these important pages in...
Cincinnati, Ohio
The observatory, founded in 1842, promotes the study and practice of astronomy among a broad audience and assists professional and amateur astronomers, and schools and universities.The Cincinnati Observatory was founded by Ormsby McKnight Mitchel, who, as a Professor at Cincinnati College in 1842, generated public enthusiasm for astronomy through...
Deadwood, South Dakota
Established in 1876 as a mining town, the addition of the railroad in 1891 turned Deadwood into a prosperous pioneer town.What you'll see in Deadwood today is a careful, accurate restoration of a historically significant city. Deadwood's extensive Victorian architecture is unique to the West. While the gold rush of 1876 brought the likes of Wild...
Foley, Alabama
This museum features a collection of railroad memorabilia and archives with research material for visitors.Located in the old L & N Railroad Depot is Foley's Museum Archives. The first depot was built in 1905 when Mr. John B. Foley of Chicago used some of his own money to bring the railroad to the southern part of Baldwin County. This first...
Las Vegas, New Mexico
The Museum and Rough Rider Memorial Collection illustrates the history of Las Vegas, its connection to the Rough Riders, the Santa Fe Trail and the development of New Mexico.The Museum is housed in a 1940 Works Progress Administration funded building. Originally constructed as a municipal building, the structure is a venerable stone building with...
Almo, Idaho
This unique geologic area became a landmark in 1843 for California-bound emigrants, as they left wagon ruts across the landscape through Register Rock, Camp Rock and others.Distinct historic themes pertinent to the City of Rocks National Reserve include American Indian habitation, the fur trade, westward migration, the development of national and...
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Foster, Rhode Island
The Foster Preservation Society's collections include nearly 700 documents and photographs and maps dating from 1799.The society's office is located in the lower level of the old Town House, built by members of the Second Baptist Church and deeded to the Town in 1822. Town meetings were first held here in 1801 and have been held continuously over...
Morristown, New Jersey
Originally owned by General Joseph Revere, grandson of Paul Revere, the property is now open to the public as a living history farm.Originally owned by General Joseph Revere, grandson of Paul Revere, the property is now open to the public as a living history farm.
Designated as the first living historical farm in New Jersey, Fosterfields is a...
Moundsville, West Virginia
Once the site of operation for a late-19th-century glassware company, the museum now offers exhibits on the industry and its impact on the United States.The Fostoria Glass Company began operations in Fostoria, Ohio, on December 15, 1887. This site was chosen because natural gas at a recently opened field in the area had been offered at a very low...
Fountain Hills, Arizona
The town includes a park, built in 1970, that has a world famous fountain, 35 acres of turf, a 100 million gallon tank, and its own dam.The town acquired the park May 1, 1997, from MCO Properties, Inc. Approximately nine months later the Parks and Recreation Commission developed a new Park Master Plan.
Virginia City, Nevada
Built in 1876 as a tribute to 100 years of American history, the Fourth Ward School closed as a school in 1936 and reopened as a museum in 1986.On November 28, 1876, the excited residents of Virginia City christened their new monument to education, the Fourth Ward School. Built to honor the nation's centennial, the majestic four-story building...
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
The Heritage Discovery Center's exhibits have a particular focus on how the iron and steel industries shaped Pennsylvania history.The Frank & Sylvia Pasquerilla Heritage Discovery Center, part of the Johnstown Discovery Network, is a community center that contains several attractions: the "America: Through Immigrant Eyes" exhibit;...
Knoxville, Tennessee
As a part of the University of Tennessee, the McClung Museum showcases the state's past from prehistoric times to present.The McClung Museum is a general museum with collections in anthropology, archaeology, decorative arts, local history, and natural history. The exhibits document ways of life, cultural trends, and technologies from prehistoric...
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
The Frank Phillips Home is one of 32 sites and museums owned, staffed, and operated by the Oklahoma Historical Society.Frank Phillips, an ambitious barber-turned-bond salesman from Iowa, came to Bartlesville (the site of the first commercial oil well in Oklahoma) in 1903 to assess business possibilities in the surrounding oil fields. A string of...
Frankenmuth, Michigan
The museum is an entertaining look at the people and the motivations of the immigrants who framed the history as well as the future of Frankenmuth.The museum uses hands-on displays, video and audio, and interesting artifacts to tell this fascinating story. Visitors will learn why and how Frankenmuth became "Michigan's Little Bavaria."...
Malone, New York
The Franklin House of History contains period rooms and a research library open to the public.Built on land once owned by Judge Hiram Horton, the home, now known as the "House of History," was built between 1863 and 1864. The society is currently working with the Malone Revitalization Foundation to save the historic Horton Mill....
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
The Franklin County Historical Society, founded in 1898, is housed in the Old Jail, which includes a museum and geneological library.The society is responsible for the Old Jail Museum, the John Brown House, the Brown's Mill School, and Carrick Furnace.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Although Benjamin Franklin's house was torn down after his death, the site was preserved and features an underground museum with a film and displays.Franklin Court was the site of the handsome brick home of Benjamin Franklin, who lived here while serving in the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention. Franklin died here in 1790; the...
Hyde Park, New York
Built under President Roosevelt’s direction during 1939-40, FDR conceived it as an institution to preserve intact all of his papers from a lifetime of public service, his personal library, and his vast collection of memorabilia.The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library is the first of our nation’s presidential libraries, and it is...
Washington, District Of Columbia
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial commemorates the life and times of the 32nd American President, with particular emphasis on his leadership during the Great Depression and World War II."The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." These are the words of our 32nd President, a man who embodied the meaning of the word courage....
New York, New York
The museum opened to the public in 1907. Today, the museum complex includes four 19th century buildings in addition to the 18th century Fraunces Tavern building.Fraunces Tavern Museum is a survivor of the early days of New York City. It was built in 1719 as an elegant residence for the merchant Stephan Delancey and his family. In 1762, the home...
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Fray Angélico Chávez History Library is the institutional successor of New Mexico's oldest library (1851) and is part of the Palace of the Governors. A non-circulating, closed stack research facility, it preserves historical materials in many formats documenting the history of the state, the Southwest, and meso-America from pre-European...
Louisville, Kentucky
This museum specializes in American and British artillery form the last 1,000 years.The Frazier museum contains unique artifacts including the ceremonial sword of Founding Father Josiah Bartlett, the family bible of the legendary pioneer Daniel Boone, and the original "Big Stick" of President Theodore Roosevelt. Each day, different...
Hominy, Oklahoma
This three-story Victorian home of Frederick Drummond, turn-of-the-century business leader and cattleman/rancher, was built in 1905 from sandstone and contains original furnishings.The Drummond family built one of the most successful trading and ranching operations in Oklahoma. Arriving in the United States from his native Scotland in 1884, twenty...
Frederick, Maryland
Frederick County Libraries runs a bookmobile, and has branches in Point of Rocks, Brunswick, Frederick, Emmitsburg, Middletown, Thurmont, Urbana and Walkersville.
Frederick County Public Libraries believes that a free and accessible Public Library is fundamental to a democratic society. The Public Library will provide facilities and an environment...
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Between 1862 and 1864 four battles near Fredericksburg claimed the lives of more than 110,000 American soldiers.Four major battles fought in the vicinity of Fredericksburg - Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and Fredicksburg - resulted in approximately 110,000 casualties, making this the bloodiest ground on the North American...
Tracys Landing, Maryland
This site commemorates the first town established on Herring Bay.
This site commemorates the first town established on Herring Bay.
Find out about Beneficial Societies and understand why they were important. Learn how ordinary people lived before electricity and indoor plumbing. Show your children an outhouse. See how plaster and lath was used in...
Wilmington, North Carolina
Since its formation in 1966, the Historic Wilmington Foundation has successfully saved over 100 historic properties from demolition. For 43 years, the Historic Wilmington Foundation has worked to preserve the architectural and historical integrity of the Lower Cape Fear region. The Foundation was established in 1966 by a group of citizens...
Linthicum, Maryland
The museum presents a history of electronics with a focus on national defense technologies.This museum showcases significant artifacts and literature throughout the history of the field of electronics. It emphasizes those electronics developed for national defense and traces such electronics to commercial products developed from them. It...
Missoula, Montana
Established in 1975, this local history museum traces the influence of the timber products industry in western MontanaIt is located on 32 acres at the core of historic Fort Missoula (1877-1947), an area included on the National Register of Historic Places. The Museum has over 25,000 objects in its collection, including 13 historic structures.
Miami, Florida
This museum traces the history of a region that has experienced a range of influences from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas to create a rich history and culture.An expansive museum examining the history of southern Florida from the arrival of the first European settlers to the present day, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida...
Roswell, New Mexico
The society's archives contain over 11,000 photographs of the past, thousands of books and manuscripts, obituaries, newspaper articles dating back to the early 1900's and other memorabilia.The stately home of Mr. and Mrs. James Phelps White, a Roswell Landmark since its completion in 1912, now stands amidst towering trees at 200 N. Lea, Roswell,...
Cockeysville, Maryland
The Baltimore County Almshouse, built in 1782, is the Historical Society of Baltimore County's headquarters.
The Historical Society of Baltimore County houses more than 7,000 museum artifacts, 5,000 photographs from the 19th century to present, 3,100 library shelf holdings, 5,500 genealogy surname vertical files, and 1,000 subject vertical files....
Westminster, Maryland
Composed of three buildings, the Historical Society of Carroll County offers visitors a portal into the lives of Pennsylvanian Germans, and promotes educational programs.
Composed of three buildings, the Historical Society of Carroll County offers visitors a portal into the lives of Pennsylvanian Germans, and promotes educational programs.
Founded...
Elkton, Maryland
The Historical Society of Cecil County offers to visitors a research library, gallery exhibits, a historic log cabin, and a replica of a country store.The Historical Society of Cecil County offers to visitors a research library, gallery exhibits, a historic log cabin, and a replica of a country store.
Cecil County preserves its historical...
Keene, New Hampshire
The Society offers numerous workshops, seminars, special lectures, tours, and slide presentations on various aspects of Cheshire County history, along with classes taught at Keene State College and with Elderhostel groups.The Historical Society of Cheshire County offers a wide variety of activities for all ages throughout the year. At the former...
Ephrata, Pennsylvania
A historical society dedicated to preserving the history of the settlement of the Cocalico Valley area by German and Swiss immigrants in the mid-18th century.The society manages the Theodore Sprecher Museum as well as an extensive library and resource center that enables visitors to track geneological records and view exhibits detailing local...
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
The society manages a library research room which includes photograph and manuscript archives of greater Dauphin County.The mission of the HSDC is to collect, preserve, exhibit, publish, and promote interest in the history of Dauphin County for the education, enjoyment, and benefit of the public. In front of the society building housing the...
Wilmington, Delaware
The Historical Society of Delaware has developed a large research library adjacent to its museum and several historical buildings and large formal garden.The Delaware History Center dominates the 500 block of Market Street Mall in downtown Wilmington and is composed of the Delaware History Museum, Old Town Hall, Willingtown Square, and HSD's...
Frederick, Maryland
Located in the "Crossroads of American History," the Museum of Frederick County History features exhibitions in an 1820 home in the heart of Historic Downtown Frederick.
Guided tours, special exhibitions and the Society’s rich collection of decorative and fine arts tell the story of Frederick County, Maryland, from the Colonial...
Indiana, Pennsylvania
A society seeking to promote a greater appreciation of Indiana County's rich heritage and history.
The society manages a library as well as a museum with permanent and changing exhibits that include coal mining, farm and home, Native Americans, and art shows.A society seeking to promote a greater appreciation of Indiana County's rich heritage and...
Long Beach, California
The historical society's main offices provide rotating exhibits and archives to promote the heritage of Long Beach.
The Historical Society of Long Beach preserves the past for the future, connecting people to history and to the place they live. We help develop an inclusive community narrative that gives residents a greater understanding of their...
Santa Fe, New Mexico
With over a century of experience, the society has collected artifacts and stories from throughout the region, and pass them on to any interested individuals.Not only does the Historical Society of New Mexico provide a refuge for all of those fascinated by history, it also promotes budding historians through scholarships and grants. The society...
Newburyport, Massachusetts
The Caleb Cushing House Museum houses the collection of the Historical Society of Old Newbury. The society dates back to 1877 and was organized for the purpose of the study and remembrance of Newbury's history.The Caleb Cushing House Museum houses the collection of the Historical Society of Old Newbury. The society dates back to 1877 and was...
Randolph, New Jersey
Formed in 1979, the society meets each month to plan activities, discuss projects, and share stories about Randolph’s past.Along with the township’s Landmarks Committee, the HSOR oversees the Randolph Museum, formerly known as the Museum of Old Randolph. Artifacts from life in and around Randolph are exhibited in displays that include an old...
West Palm Beach, Florida
Housed in the historic 1916 Courthouse, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County offers exhibits covering thousands of years of history in Palm Beach.Housed in the historic 1916 Courthouse, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County offers exhibits covering thousands of years of history in Palm Beach.
The Historical Society of Palm Beach...
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Fort Harrison, Montana
Two centuries of military experiences in Montana are displayed in a museum complex approaching completion at Fort Harrison near Helena.Spearheading the effort to develop the Montana Military Museum, now five years in the making and using nine buildings at the century-old fort, are volunteers whose aim is to have all displays in place and ready for...
West Missoula , Montana
The displays at the museum include antique firearms, steam and gas engines, automobiles, tools of all descriptions, logging and mining equipment and much more.The displays at the museum include antique firearms, steam and gas engines, automobiles, tools of all descriptions, logging and mining equipment and much more.Tours are available on request...
Helena, Montana
This museum is run by the Montana Historical Museum and as such covers a wide range of topics related to Montana history.The Montana Historical Society Museum, Montana's Museum, collects, preserves, and interprets fine art, historical, archaeological, and ethnological artifacts that pertain to Montana and its adjoining geographic region. Montana's...
Montclair, New Jersey
The Society seeks to restore the Crane House Museum, as well as other buildings at its Orange Road complex.This fine Federal-style mansion was home to three generations of the Crane family, descended from one of Montclair's founders. Israel Crane, a successful merchant who constructed the turnpike that opened New Jersey's heartland to earty trade...
New London, Connecticut
Situated in New London, Connecticut, Monte Cristo Cottage is the boyhood home of Eugene O'Neill, America's only Nobel-Prize winning playwright.The Monte Cristo Cottage was the only permanent home of Eugene O'Neill from his birth in 1888 until 1917, when he began supporting himself as a playwright. Named in honor of his father, actor James O'Neill'...
Monterey, California
The Maritime Museum tells the history of Monterey and the surrounding area, emphasizing its connection to the sea.The Maritime Museum tells the history of Monterey and the surrounding area, emphasizing its connection to the sea.
The Monterey History and Maritime Museum holds over 50,000 artifacts, costumes and textiles, photographs, and historic...
Camp Verde, Arizona
One of our nation's first National Monuments, Montezuma's Castle is one of the best preserved prehistoric cliff dwellings in North America.This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a 1,000 year-old story of ingenuity and survival by the Sinagua people in an unforgiving desert landscape. Montezuma Well, a unit...
Rockville, Maryland
The Montgomery County Historical Society uses its historic buildings, collections and educational programs to provide for the county's residents to find a common ground through history.The Montgomery County Historical Society uses its historic buildings, collections and educational programs to provide for the county's residents to find a common...
Montgomery, Alabama
Mob violence that met interracial student bus riders at this station on May 20, 1961 shocked the nation and led the Kennedy Administration to side with civil rights protestors.Mob violence that met interracial student bus riders at this station on May 20, 1961 shocked the nation and led the Kennedy Administration to side with civil rights...
Red Hook, New York
The 19th century mansion was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, and its 434 acres offer resplendent views of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains.Montgomery Place, a serene reflection of nearly 200 years of continuous family stewardship, is best known as a landscape influenced by the great Andrew Jackson Downing and an architectural...
Charlottesville, Virginia
Italian for "little mountain," Monticello is the self-designed home of Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third President and principal author of the Declaration of Independence.Construction began in 1769 according to Jefferson's first design, which was completed (except for porticoes and decorative interior woodwork) when he left for Europe...
Montpelier Station, Virginia
The lifelong home of James Madison, this 2750-acre estate includes farmland, race courses, formal gardens, trails through a National Landmark Forest, and working archaeological sites.Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Orange, Virginia, Montpelier was the lifelong home of James Madison. Madison was raised at Montpelier, lived...
Laurel, Maryland
The house and the 70 acres on which it stands are what remain from what was once a 9,000 acre plantation.Ann Ridgely and Thomas Snowden, members of two prominent Maryland families, began construction on this house in 1781. The couple's reputation led to the visits of many notable individuals, such as George Washington and Abigail Adams. The...
Yorktown, Virginia
Located behind the allied siege lines, this house was used as the stage for the surrender negotiations between Allied and British representatives in 1781, ending the Revolutionary War.The site on which the Moore House now stands was first patented by Governor John Harvey in the 1630's, and was once named "York Plantation." A century...
Currie, North Carolina
The Battle at Moores Creek took place on February 27, 1776 and was an epic ending to British rule in the North Carolina colony.The battle is commemorated annually during the last full weekend in February. The event features living history encampments, weapons demonstrations, colonial and military music and a wreath laying ceremony. Various...
Raleigh, North Carolina
Mordecai Historic Park includes Mordecai Mansion, an antebellum plantation home with many of its original furnishings.While at Mordecai, visitors can tour other historic structures which have been moved to Mordecai Park for preservation, including the Birthplace of Andrew Johnson. Mordecai Historic Park is also home to the Historic Raleigh Trolley...
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
The historic log cabin of Edward Morgan, a Welsh Quaker, and grandfather of frontiersman Daniel Boone.Today the cabin is administered by the Welsh Valley Preservation Society and exhibits many examples of fine antique furniture, metals, household implements, and colonial period decorative arts from the early Welsh and German traditions of...
Delray Beach, Florida
This 200 acre facility celebrates the tradition of Japanese history in Florida with gardens, museums, fine art, and a traditional tea ceremony.Since its opening in 1977, The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens has been a center for Japanese arts and culture in South Florida, with rotating exhibits in its galleries,tea ceremonies performed monthly...
Genoa, Nevada
The migration of gold-seekers west to California necessitated the establishment of this, Nevada's first permanent nonnative settlement.Mormon Station is the site of Nevada's first permanent nonnative settlement. A replica of the original trading post built in 1851 houses a small museum with relics of pioneer days. Picnic and group facilities are...
Strafford, Vermont
Renaissance man Justin Morrill, the chief sponsor of the Land Grant Act, built this outstanding example of a Gothic Revival cottage.Justin S. Morrill (1810-1898) was the chief sponsor of the 1862 and 1890 Land-Grant Acts. These were the most important pieces of legislation for American higher education in the 19th century. For the first time,...
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New Braunfels, Texas
The Sophienburg Museum contains artifacts and displays of early life in New Braunfels, with particular focus on its German pioneers.
The Museum relates local history through the display of aritfacts and displays of early life in New Braunfels. Visit the Sophienburg Museum and take a delightful trip back to the mid 1800's when New Braunfels was...
Draper, Utah
Small by today's standards, the house was a "public place" and gathering spot for early Draper residents.The Sorenson home, although having the appearance of a cross-wing style, is actually two parlor houses connected in a cross-wing fashion. The original section of the home was built around 1882 with adobe bricks as a family project of...
Hollywood, Maryland
The oldest remaining Tidewater plantation, Sotterley is now a National Historic Landmark open to the public for tours.The oldest remaining Tidewater plantation, Sotterley is now a National Historic Landmark open to the public for tours.
Older than Mount Vernon, older than Monticello, older than the nation itself, Sotterley Plantation stands...
South Boston, Virginia
This museum tells the story of South Boston, Halifax County, and Southside Virginia through local history artifacts.
The museum's exhibits include Civil War Artifacts, Glassware, Hummels, Indian Artifacts, Military Uniforms, and Collections from Halifax County founding families. Exhibits are changed in the Main Gallery each month to reflect...
Columbia, South Carolina
Founded in 1896, Columbia's oldest museum displays the vast military history in South Carolina.The Museum collects and preserves artifacts relating to, or associated with, all eras of South Carolina military history for exhibition, to educate and engage its visitors. Conducting research, developing educational programs, and publishing scholarly...
Edgefield, South Carolina
Visitors can see rice and indigo, pirates and patriots, slaves and freemen, cotton fields and mill villages, swamps and waterfalls, and spirituals and bluegrass by traveling through this corridor.From Table Rock Mountain to the wharves of McClellanville, the Heritage Corridor is a setting of southern history and life style that is alive and...
Arroyo Grande, California
The South County Historical Society boasts several late 19th century dwellings, a schoolhouse, and the former meeting place of the International Order of Odd Fellows.
The Heritage House was built in the late 1800's. Records show that the house was sold to Charles A. Pitkin in 1895. In 1906 the house was sold to Dr. H. S. Walters and was known as...
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Today the museum's collection includes more than 20,000 items dating from 1695 to 1950, with a concentration on the Victorian era.SCM is located in a 174-acre town park that was the 19th-century estate of Rhode Island's Civil War-era governor and post-war senator, William Sprague. In addition to the office building, the caretaker's cottage (a...
Bradenton, Florida
The extensive collection of this museum includes dioramas, three-dimensional reproductions of Ice Age mammals, and artifacts from the first Spanish explorers.Discover Florida's story from the prehistoric to the present with life-sized casts of Ice Age mammals that roamed in Southwest Florida 12,000 years ago, realistic dioramas, and fossil...
Deerfield Beach, Florida
This local history museum focuses on railroads and the massive changes they have wrought upon South Florida society.The museum seeks to provide the public with the history of railroading and how it affected the population growth and industry boom from the 1940's to the 1960's in the South Florida area. It teaches through the use of railroad...
South Lyon, Michigan
The commission works to preserve the history of South Lyon by collecting materials, including books, pamphlets, maps charts, manuscripts, paintings, pioneer narratives, photographs, and other artifacts associated with the settlement of the South Lyon area. The historical commission also assists and cooperates with other Michigan historical...
Boonsboro, Maryland
Compromised of over 10,000 acres surrounding the Appalachian Trail, this historic park once was the site of two separate Civil War battles.South Mountain, a ridge composed largely of resistant quartzite, posed a formidable obstacle to the early settlers until 1755 when General Edward Braddock and a young surveyor, George Washington, constructed a...
Tamuning, Guam
Situated on the site where Japan's General Hideyoshi Obata constructed his underground command post during the waning days of World War II sits the South Pacific Memorial Park.The park located in the village of Yigo, serves as a solemn reminder of a war that took the lives of over a-half million Japanese, Americans, and Pacific Islanders. The...
Fairplay, Colorado
The city contains 34 authentic buildings filled with over 60,000 artifacts of frontier boomtown life.South Park City is a remarkable restoration of these early towns, preserving the history of our nation's frontier while it educates and entertains the present. Located in Fairplay, Colorado, the museum is an accurate representation of a mining town...
South Pass City, Wyoming
What was once a gold mining boom town is now a historical site of 17 restored buildings.William Bright, a saloon keeper and mine owner, represented South Pass City during Wyoming's First Territorial Legislature. During this session, Bright penned and introduced a women's suffrage bill. The bill was passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor...
New York, New York
The Museum preserves and interprets the history of New York City as a world port; it spans a 12 square-block district that includes the largest privately-owned fleet of historic ships in the country.The South Street Seaport Museum preserves and interprets the history of New York City as a world port, a place where goods, labor and cultures are...
Brewster, New York
Located in the 1896 Old Town Hall, this regional history museum explores the town of Southeast, New York.Exhibits throughout the museum include the early American Circus, the Harlem Line Railroad, the Tilly Foster Mine, the Borden Milk Condensery, and the Croton Reservoir System. In addition, the museum presents various changing exhibits, drawing...
Nashville, Tennessee
Serving as the main research center for the life and history of Baptists, the library collections focus on the history of the Southern Baptists.With more than 30,000 books and 17,000 reels of microfilm containing 13 million pages of Baptist historical materials, the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives serves as the denominations...
Wellington, Ohio
The museum preserves the history of Wellington and features paintings from artist Archibald Willard, who painted the “Spirit of ‘76.”The Herrick Memorial Library was a gift to Wellington by Myron T. Herrick, a prominent businessman in the area. On display are vintage clothing, tools, hardware and dairy equipment used by farmers...
Kennesaw, Georgia
The museum offers a wide range of exhibits, including documentation of Civil War soldiers' lives and a locomotive factory reproduction. A place where Civil War history meets local Kennesaw locomotive history. The newly renovated Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History houses three permanent collections, as well as a space...
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Upper Sandusky, Ohio
Founded in 1962, the museum is dedicated to the acquisition, preservation, and interpretations of physical evidence, relevant to the history of Wyandot County, Ohio, and surrounding areas.In the early 1900s, several attempts were made to begin an historical society in Wyandot County. Emil Schlup, Zach Smith, Mark Carr, Jay Marguerat and Cyrus Hare...
Wyandotte, Michigan
The museum is comprised of information from the early Native American inhabitants to the present day. Business, industry, people, homes, clubs and organizations are all represented in the collection.The Wyandotte Museum maintains an archives and research room pertaining to the history and development of the City of Wyandotte, Michigan, and the...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This home, built in 1690, was once residence to the Wistar and Haines families for nine generations.Today the wonderful colonial house with its noteworthy 1824 alterations by William Strickland, and historic gardens invites visitors to view not only remarkable collections, but to experience through the lives of its owners the changing character of...
Brooklyn, New York
New York City's oldest structure educates visitors about Brooklyn's colonial history, with emphasis on the borough's diversity and the development of agriculture.Its history exemplifies the diversity of Brooklyn’s colonial farms, where Dutch-American landowners, enslaved and freed Africans, and later European immigrants labored on some of...
Bloomington, Indiana
This historic home was built by Indiana University's first president, Andrew Wylie, in 1835.The house is distinctive and unusual for south-central Indiana, a blend of Federal and Georgian styles of architecture more characteristic of southwest Pennsylvania, where Wylie was born and raised. It is one of the few pre-1840 structures that...
Castalian Springs, Tennessee
Mineral springs and scenic views surround Wynnewood, the largest log structure in Tennessee.Wynnewood is the largest extant log structure in Tennessee. It was built in 1828 by A. R. Wynne, William Cage, and Stephen Roberts as a stagecoach inn on the Nashville-Knoxville Road. In 1834 Wynne purchased his partners' interests and moved his family into...
Wyoming, Ohio
The society, founded in 1981, currently has a vigorous program to collect, preserve and catalog items of Wyoming history.The Wyoming Historical Society was formally founded on November 12, 1981. Although its roots go back to the first Wyoming Historic House Tour, organized by Katie Stonebarger Bond (Mrs. Henry Bond) for the Wyoming Centennial in...
Cheyenne, Wyoming
This museum tells the history and development of Wyoming, from its dinosaurs to its role in America’s westward expansion.The museum begin with the natural history of the region. Developed in cooperation with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the Wild Bunch gallery acquaints visitors with some of the state's more common wildlife. The...
Laramie, Wyoming
Built in 1872, this prison held some of the most notorious outlaws of the West, including Butch Cassidy.Built in 1872 and restored in 1989, the prison is a highlight of Montana's frontier past. Stops along the tour of the 190-acre facility include: furnished cells, the prisoners' dining area, guard's quarters, infirmary, women's quarters, laundry...
Casper, Wyoming
This museum is a non-typical military venue that is exclusively focused on the personal, intimate, and sensitive stories of the individuals who have participated in the museum.The museum is located on the grounds of the former Casper Army Air Base, constructed during the Second World War. The building that now houses the Wyoming Veterans Memorial...
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