Frontier History
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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,...
Prairie du Rocher, Illinois
This site marks the location of the last of three successive forts named “de Chartres” built by the French during their eighteenth-century colonial occupation of what is today Illinois.This fort served as the French seat of government and its chief military installation in the Illinois Country. In...
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Fort Mackinac was a major military outpost during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
Fort Mackinac was a major military outpost during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
Fort Mackinac was founded by British troops at Mackinac Island during the American Revolution, and...
Perrysburg, Ohio
This site is a reconstruction of an important American fort that withstood a British siege during the War of 1812.
In February 1813, American soldiers under the command of William Henry Harrison began building Fort Meigs to protect against invading British forces. Upon completion, the structure was...
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...
Johnstown, New York
Johnson Hall State Historic Site was the 1763 Georgian home and business headquarters for Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Northern Dept. [Six Nations].
As the largest single landowner and most influential individual in the settlement of the Mohawk Valley, Sir William...
Charleston, Illinois
Tour the only museum in Illinois retracing the senatorial debates of 1858 between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. The museum offers exhibits and interactive displays that tell the debates’ story through film, audio selections, artifacts and photos. The museum also includes a children’s...
Petersburg, Illinois
Everyone acquainted with the Village of New Salem realizes it is more than a collection of log homes and buildings. It is the reconstruction of a Time and Place that enabled a once poor common man like Abraham Lincoln to rise to national prominence and importance through his own diligence and drive...
Springfield, Illinois
The Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices are within the only remaining building in which Abraham Lincoln maintained a law office. The site consists of the surviving portion of a three-story brick commercial block constructed in 1840-41. Exterior details reflect the then-popular Greek Revival architectural...
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Founded in 1935, the Milwaukee County Historical Society houses over 50,000 artifacts that detail almost 200 years of Milwaukee County history. From its early quarrel between the western (Kilbourntown) and eastern (Juneautown) cities, through its attracting of German and Polish immigrants,...
Baker City, Oregon
The Center offers living history demonstrations, interpretive programs, exhibits, multi-media presentations, special events, and more than four miles of interpretive trails.
The old, untamed frontier opens up to visitors at this extensively informative center located right outside Baker City, OR....
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The New Mexico History Museum began as the development of a storage facility for collections at the Palace of the Governors decades ago and has evolved into a first-class museum project, spurred by the national rethinking of the role history museums play in communities. They are no longer attics or...
Pasadena, California
The building where this historical society's main office is located holds a wealth of archival materials, including an extensive collection of judges' and attorneys' oral histories.
The Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society (NJCHS) was founded in 1985 to collect, preserve and present to the...
San Jose, California
The Peralta Adobe and Fallon House stand as memorials to the distinct cultural heritage of San Jose.
The Peralta Adobe is San José’s oldest address. Built in 1797, the Peralta Adobe is the last remaining structure from El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. See the Adobe’s...
Danville, Illinois
The true house Museum is housed in a home built by pioneer physician William Fithian, who in his time, served as prairie legislator, horseback doctor, Civil War surgeon and personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. Dr. Fithian and Lincoln became friends when they both served in the Illinois legislature...