Harrison, Nebraska
Nebraska, in the American heartland, has been occupied by a variety of animals and groups of people; this site takes a look back at the evolution of the land and it inhabitants, both animal and human.During the 1890s, scientists rediscovered what the Lakota Sioux already knew - bones preserved in...
Palm Springs, California
The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum inspires people to learn about the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and other Native cultures.Through exhibitions, collections, research, and educational programs, the museum portrays the history and culture of the Agua Caliente and other indigenous peoples....
Maricopa , Arizona
The heritage museum displays artifacts and objects that document the Ak-Chin tribe's way of life.The Museum's title means "way of life" in the tribe's language, and reflects the Museum's guiding principle: to preserve the ways in which the tribe's historical ancestors lived and to communicate them...
Hogansburg, New York
The center began with the founding of a library in 1971, in order to curb the dropout rate in the community.In 1972, cultural classes started and donations to the center began the museum collections. The board of directors and the staff of the library and museum are Akwesasne Mohawk community...
Anchorage, Alaska
Housed in a historic bank, this museum pays particular attention to the impact and involvement of Wells Fargo in the Alaskan Gold Rush.The Alaskan Gold Rush of the late 19th century attracted many people to the territory and led to its economic development and eventual statehood in 1959. This...
Anchorage, Alaska
With a glimpse into one of the richest natural landscapes in the country, this museum displays varied exhibits that show the dynamic natural beauty of America's largest state--Alaska.With a glimpse into one of the richest natural landscapes in the country, this museum displays varied exhibits that...
Anchorage, Alaska
The museum will take you on a journey as it explores the history and cultures of five of Alaska's indigenous groups.The museum will take you on a journey as it explores the history and cultures of five of Alaska's indigenous groups.The Alaska Native Heritage Center, a renowned cultural center and...
Albany, Illinois
One of the most important archaeological sites in Illinois, Albany Mounds contains evidence of continuous human occupation over the last 10,000 years.The Albany Mounds date from the Middle Woodland (Hopewell) period (200 BCE-CE 300), older than either the Cahokia or Dickson Mounds of the...
San Francisco, California
Offering a look at the first U.S. lighthouse and fort on the West Coast, this island explores the history of the Native American occupation and the federal penitentiary.The history of Alcatraz is surprising to those that only know the Hollywood version. Civil War fortress, infamous federal prison,...
Unalaska, Alaska
This little known site of arduous WWII battles is located on a rich and remote archipelago stretching from Alaska to Siberia. Perched on Mount Ballyhoo in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, the concrete remains of the Aleutian World War II National Historic Area speak silently of a time of war. This...
Markleeville, California
The Alpine County Historical Complex houses exhibits that highlight Alpine County history, with a main museum and other period buildings and equipment from the pioneer days.The Museum contains displays of an old country store, a blacksmith shop, Washoe Indian basketry, watch maker's desk, doctor's...
Kodiak, Alaska
The Alutiiq Museum, located on the first floor of the Alutiiq Cultural Center, traces the 7,500 years of the Alutiiq people of southern Alaska. To help preserve the culture and language of the Alutiiq people, the center engages in campaigns to teach the Alutiiq language while museum staff and...
Dolores, Colorado
This museum explores the Ancestral Puebloan culture and other Native cultures in the Four Corners region; the starting point for visits to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.The museum features permanent exhibits on archaeology, local history, & Native American cultures, two 12th-century...
Boulder, Utah
The pre-Columbian Anasazi people inhabited this site, which has been partly excavated, and left behind numerous artifacts that today serve to educate visitors about their way of life.Visit the museum and partially excavated prehistoric Indian village at Anasazi State Park. The park is located in...
Anchorage, Alaska
For an engaging look into the history, ethnography, and art of Alaska, plan a trip to the Anchorage Museum--a great place for a casual visit or for more extensive research.The largest museum in Alaska, the Anchorage Museum is a community-based institution with exhibits and programs on the art,...
Mission Hills, California
The Andres Pico Adobe is one of the oldest residences in the City of Los Angeles, presenting a bygone era and the rich historical past of the San Fernando Valley.Inside are museum displays of native American beads, Mission and Spanish-Mexican era artifacts, costumes and clothing that span more than...
Blountville, Tennessee
Once inhabited by Native Americans and pioneers alike, these caverns feature archeological sites, walking tours, and nearby campgrounds.For many years the cavern lay in silence broken only by the sound of the water, the animals that called it home and the occasional human who made their way into it...
Elizabeth, Illinois
On June 24, 1832, the settlers at this fort turned back an attack by some 200 Sauk and Fox warriors led by Black Hawk during what is known as the Black Hawk War.The war, which lasted only 16 weeks, ended the threat of Indian attacks in the area and opened the region to further settlement. Many...
Golden, Colorado
Explore how the people of Golden, Colorado settled a bustling town that served the developing West as a government center and mining supply town.The Astor House was built in 1867, and stayed in continuous operation as a boarding and rooming house until 1971. It rented rooms and served hot meals to...
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...
Los Alamos, New Mexico
At Bandelier, evidence of the Ancestral Pueblo people can be found in the dwellings, artifacts, and continuing culture of the modern pueblo.Bandelier has a long human history and links to the modern Pueblos. Early Spanish settlers, the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC), and the National Park Service...
Lakeside, California
As San Diego County’s only museum on an Indian reservation, this museum presents a look inside the Native culture.The museum’s collection represents thousands of years of history—some objects dating as far back as 10,000 years—and it demonstrates the artistry and skill of...
Garden City, Utah
This beautiful mountain lake also served as a 19th century trading post between mountain men and Native Americans.The Bear Lake Valley was first inhabited by Shoshoni Tribes, then fur trappers. Between 1825 & 1840, many mountain men and Native Americans met on the south end of the lake to swap...
Bedford, Virginia
This museum tracks local Virginia history through exhibits on war and minorities.This local history museum is housed in a former Masonic Temple dating from 1895. It contains exhibits pertaining to the African-American experience, Native Americans, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World Wars I...
Stanton, North Dakota
This village, part of the larger Knife River Indian Village complex, was the place, in 1804, where Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery arrived and met the influential Shoshone woman Sacagawea.The pioneers, dispatched by President Jefferson to explore the new land recently acquired from the...
Wisdom, Montana
Located 16 miles south of Chinook, Montana, the battlefield commemorates the final conflict of the Nez Perce War of 1877.On August 9, 1877 gun shots shattered a chilly dawn on a sleeping camp of Nez Perce. Colonel John Gibbon and 163 men of the 7th Infantry and 34 Bitterroot Volunteers had orders...
Antioch, California
The Black Diamond Mines Preserve provides visitors with a scenic location at which they can get a glimpse of what it was like to be a miner in the 19th and 20th centuries.Guided tours of the Hazel-Atlas mine take visitors through an old mine used to produce silica sand for glass items. The...
Asheville, North Carolina
The heritage area at Blue Ridge is known for its thriving traditions of craft, music, agriculture, and Cherokee culture.The Blue Ridge National Heritage Area encompasses the mountains of North Carolina and includes the Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The region’s...
Winchester, Kentucky
This three-floor museum in the 1894 Guerrant Clinic building focuses on the history of the Bluegrass region, so named after the blue-blossomed grass species that grows here in profusion.
It features displays on the Eskippakithiki Indians, the founding of the Western frontier and Wilderness Road,...
Austin, Texas
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in downtown Austin, Texas, tells the “Story of Texas” with three floors of interactive exhibits and entertaining and informative shows.Three floors of exhibits -- three themes as big as Texas history: Land, Identity and Opportunity. The...
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...
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...
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...
Le Claire, Iowa
The museum is centered around William "Buffalo Bill" F. Cody, American soldier, bison hunter, showman, and native to Le Claire, Iowa. Other exhibits feature riverboat pilots, the Sauk and Fox Indian tribes, pioneers of LeClaire township and Indian artifacts. Unique to this museum are...
Bull Shoals, Arkansas
This museum interprets the history of Bull Shoals, Ark., "The Best Little Town by a Dam."
The Bull Shoals Historical Museum features displays on the Civil War, antique dolls, exhibits documenting the building of Bull Shoals Dam, old maps, photos and rotating private collections. The...
Flagler Beach, Florida
Visitors can tour the sugar mill ruins and learn about the plantation's history at the interpretive center.Visitors can tour the sugar mill ruins and learn about the plantation's history at the interpretive center.
In 1836, the Second Seminole War swept away the prosperous Bulow Plantation where...
Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Bushy Run Battlefield preserves and interprets the site of this pivotal battle fought between British and Native Americans during Pontiac's War and the role of this British victory in maintaining control of North America.The 213 acres of forested and grassy areas that comprise Bushy Run Battlefield...
Collinsville, Illinois
The remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico are preserved at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization designated Cahokia Mounds a World Heritage Site for its importance to our understanding of...
Gillette, Wyoming
Located in Wyoming's coal country, the Rockpile Museum traces the area's history, from arrowheads and pioneer wagons to homesteads and the modern energy industry.The museum contains collections of rifles, saddles, Native American artifacts, fossils, quilts, and other memorabilia. Much of the...
East Moline, Illinois
Located in the Mississippi River, Campbell’s Island, near present-day Rock Island, was the site of a day-long battle fought in the War of 1812.On July 19, 1814, a pro-British band of Sauk Indians led by Black Hawk attacked a force of United States regulars and rangers under Lieutenant John...
Chinle, Arizona
Reflecting one of the longest continuously inhabited landscapes of North America, the cultural resources of Canyon de Chelly include distinctive architecture, artifacts, and rock imagery.Canyon de Chelly also sustains a living community of Navajo people, who are connected to a landscape of great...
Cape May Court House, New Jersey
The Museum contains extensive and varied exhibits including furnishings, costumes, tools and decorative and practical objects from the 17th to 20th centuries. Maritime and Native American history are highlighted.The period rooms include the 18th century kitchen and bedroom with its sampler...
Red Lodge, Montana
This four-story, 20,000 sq. ft. brick building was built by the Red Lodge Miners Local No. 1771 to serve over 1,000 union miners in the Carbon County area.In 1909 the Labor Temple was completed in Red Lodge on the corner of 8th and Billings Ave (now Broadway). The first floor was occupied by the...
Coolidge, Arizona
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves an ancient Hohokam farming community and "Great House."Casa Grande Ruins is the first archeological site to be preserved by the federal government and the fifth oldest unit in the National Park Service. Set aside as a federal land reserve in...
Springerville, Arizona
Mysteriously abandoned in the early 15th century, Casa Malpais Archaeological Park is situated atop a rim of volcanic rock overlooking the Little Colorado River's Round Valley.The Mogollan people occupied Casa Malpais, which means "House of the Badlands," for almost 200 years before...
St. Augustine, Florida
The last standing 17th-century fort in the U.S., the monument has a complex cultural history beginning with Native Americans and running through Spanish, French, and English colonial domination.Begun in 1672, the Castillo de San Marcos is the last 17th century fort left in the United States....
Avalon, California
With a history containing everything from Native Americans to Civil War occupation, Catalina Island has a rich history and a history that is explored at length at the Catalina Museum.The best place to experience local history is at the Catalina Island museum, with a number of exhibits and tours...
Newton, North Carolina
This museum offers testimony to the hardy settlers of the Catawba River Valley and their resourceful descendants who carved a world-renowned furniture and textile empire out of the backwoods.It is the story of the American Dream as perceived by the self-sufficient Scotch-Irish, German, English, and...
Nageezi, New Mexico
Chaco Canyon was a major center of Puebloan culture between AD 850 and 1250.The Chacoan sites are part of the homeland of Pueblo Indian peoples of New Mexico, the Hopi Indians of Arizona, and the Navajo Indians of the Southwest. The majority of the park and cultural sites are self-guided year-round...
Ventura, California
These coastal mountains of California's islands depict a history spanning over 12,000 years.The Channel Islands have attracted many explorers, scientists and historians during the past few centuries. Today, island visitors can explore the world of the native Chumash, walk the shores where European...