Historic Sites
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Greater Southwest Historical Museum Ardmore, Oklahoma
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The centerpiece of the museum is the Sam Noble Hall, containing exhibits that recreate... |
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Greeley History Museum Greeley, Colorado
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Step inside the historic entrance or new glass atrium doors and begin exploring Greeley's... |
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Greensboro Historical Museum Greensboro, North Carolina
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Visit the museum and view a vintage moving picture in the Crystal Theatre, listen in on a... |
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Griffith Quarry Museum Penryn, California
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Complete with some of the original office furniture of the Penryn Granite Works, the... |
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Groveland Museum Groveland, California
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With displays about Spanish settlement, local agricultural history, historic newspapers,... |
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Hacienda De Los Martinez Taos, New Mexico
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Built in 1804 by Severino Martin (later changed to Martinez), this fortress-like building... |
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Hanford Mills Museum East Meredith, New York
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In 1898, Hanford Mills harnessed the waters of Kortright Creek to provide the town with... |
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Har Ber Village Grove, Oklahoma
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Built as a gift to the public from Harvey and Bernice Jones, Har-Ber Village is a... |
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Harn Homestead & 1849ers Museum Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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The History of the Harn Homestead spans over 100 years. Visitors can share in the... |
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Hayward Area Historical Society Museum Hayward, California
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The lands that were originally inhabited by Ohlone Indians are now sprawling suburban... |
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Healy House Museum And Dexter Cabin Leadville, Colorado
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James V. Dexter's surprisingly plush 1879 log cabin was the Leadville residence of the... |
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Heidrick Ag History Center Woodland, California
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This museum explores the marvels of agriculture and commercial trucking through 130,000... |
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Hensley's Settlement Cumberland Gap, Virginia
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Part of Cumberland Gap National Park, this rural Appalachian area on top of Brush... |
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Heritage Farm Museum And Village Huntington, West Virginia
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Tour the entire village to get a glimpse of a craftsman at work in the Blacksmith shop... |
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Heritage Farmstead & Learning Center Statesville, North Carolina
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A variety of living history sites including a log cabin and a blacksmith shop recreate... |
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Heritage Farmstead Museum Plano, Texas
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The Heritage Farmstead Museum offers a four acre complex with row crops, gardens, a... |
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Heritage House Museum And Santa Manuela Schoolhouse Arroyo Grande, California
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Along with the numerous artifacts in the main house, the South County Historical Society'... |
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Heritage Village Largo, Florida
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Heritage Village, Pinellas County's 21-acre living history museum, is located in the... |
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Historic Arkansas Museum Little Rock, Arkansas
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The Historic Arkansas Museum is a historic-site museum of Arkansas’ frontier days.... |
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Historic Oak View County Park Raleigh, North Carolina
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The recorded history of Oak View began in 1829 when Benton Southworth Donaldson Williams... |
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Historic Spanish Point Osprey, Florida
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Sitting upon 30 acres, this museum features a number of regional history exhibits.... |
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Historic Village And Deale Area Museum Tracys Landing, Maryland
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This site commemorates the first town established on Herring Bay. Find out about... |
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Historical Museum Of Southern Florida Miami, Florida
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An expansive museum examining the history of southern Florida from the arrival of the... |
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Historical Society Of Palm Beach County West Palm Beach, Florida
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Housed in the historic 1916 Courthouse, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County... |
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History Museum Of Los Gatos Los Gatos, California
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At the museum, visitors can find out how "Mountain Charlie" McKiernan, a... |
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History Museum of Western Virginia Roanoke, Virginia
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Located in downtown Roanoke, the History Museum of Western Virginia covers centuries of... | |
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Hollenberg Pony Express Station Hanover, Kansas
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One can almost hear the thundering of horse hooves and the creak of wagons as Pony... |
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Hot Springs County Museum And Cultural Center Thermopolis, Wyoming
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The museum has a Main Street exhibit which contains recreations of a dozen stores from... |
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Hotel De Paris Museum Georgetown, Colorado
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The NSCDA in Colorado purchased the building in 1954 and now operates it as the only... |
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Hubbard Museum Of The American West Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico
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The mission of the Hubbard Museum of the American West is to collect, preserve and... |
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Hubbell Trading Post Ganado, Arizona
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During the four years held at Bosque Redondo, Navajos were introduced to many new things... |
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Hutchinson County Historical Museum Borger, Texas
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The Hutchinson County Museum is a regional history museum in the Texas Panhandle. Our... |
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Hyde Log Cabin Grand Isle, Vermont
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This one-and-a half story structure was built by Jedediah Hyde, Jr. circa 1783. Made of... |
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Independence Rock Muddy Gap, Wyoming
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Independence Rock stands 6,028 feet (1,808.3m) above sea level. The tallest point of the... |
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J.m. Davis Arms And Historical Museum Claremore, Oklahoma
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John Monroe Davis received his first gun at the age of 7. That was the start of his... |
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Jackson Hole Historical Society And Museum Jackson, Wyoming
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The Jackson Hole Museum began in 1958 as a private history museum to house the lifetime... |
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Jacksonville Museum Of Science & History Jacksonville, Florida
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The museum displays 12,000 years of history in the Currents of Time exhibit or explore... |
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Jake Jackson Museum And History Center Weaverville, California
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The museum houses a collection of rare firearms that were the core of the first artifacts... |
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Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, California
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Rotating exhibits display numerous elements of Japanese life and art, both past and... |
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Jefferson National Expansion Memorial St. Louis, Missouri
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Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the spread of freedom and democracy from “sea to... |
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Jerusalem Mill Kingsville, Maryland
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A 318 acre tract of land was patented to Nicholas Hempstead and John Walley in 1687, and... |
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Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum Buffalo, Wyoming
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Jim Gatchell came to Buffalo in 1900 to establish a drug store on Buffalo’s Main... |
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Joachim Regional Museum Dickinson, North Dakota
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The Joachim museum includes art and history exhibits of regional significance, features... |
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John Brown Museum Osawatomie, Kansas
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Reverend Samuel Adair and his wife, Florella were peaceful abolitionists who came to... |
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John Jay French Museum Beaumont, Texas
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The John Jay French house, built in 1845, was one of the first painted houses as well as... |
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John Wesley Powell Memorial Museum Page, Arizona
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Other exhibits focus on the geology of the canyons cut by the Colorado and the history... |
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Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse And Museum Jupiter, Florida
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The museum is owned and run by the Loxahatchee River Historical Society, which also... |
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Kansas Museum Of History Topeka, Kansas
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Award-winning exhibits on the state's colorful past fill the spacious main gallery at the... |
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Kauffman House Museum Grand Lake, Colorado
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The Kauffman House is an excellent example of an early residence and tourist hotel. It... |
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Kelley House Museum Mendocino, California
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This historic home, built in 1861, offers exhibits on the cultural heritage of the... |
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Kimberly Crest House And Gardens Redlands, California
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The 7,000 square foot, three-story chateau sits on a six and one quarter acre estate two... |
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Kingsley Plantation Jacksonville, Florida
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The Kingsley Plantation, administered by the National Park Service, is located on Fort... |
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Klondike Gold Rush Seattle Unit National Historical Park Seattle, Washington
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The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Visitor Center offers visitors a chance... |
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Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site Stanton, North Dakota
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Knife River is made up of three large villages and is the site of the friendly... |
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Koreshan State Historic Site Estero, Florida
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Throughout its history, Florida has welcomed pioneers of all kinds. Cyrus Reed Teed was... |
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Lafayette Miners Museum Lafayette, Colorado
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In December of 1913, coal miner William E. Lewis and his family purchased the home. from... |
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Lake Jackson Historical Museum Lake Jackson, Texas
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Visitors to the Lake Jackson Historical Museum can experience life in the Lake... |
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Lanterman House And Historical Museum La Cañada Flintridge, California
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Completed in 1915, the Lanterman House was built by the second generation of La Ca... |
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Laramie Plains Museum Laramie, Wyoming
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The museum offers guided tours of the thirty-room mansion. The rooms are filled with... |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home And Museum Mansfield, Missouri
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The Museum exhibits include artifacts spanning over a century of the lives of the... |
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society De Smet, South Dakota
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Visitors experience a unique journey into Laura's life and history with a trip to the... |
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Lawrenceburg Public Square Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
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Small shops, frequented by citizens and visitors, surround the Lawrenceburg Public Square... |
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Lehigh Valley Heritage Center Allentown, Pennsylvania
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A museum exploring the history of the settlement of the Lehigh Valley. The museum traces... |
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Lemhi Pass Tendoy, Idaho
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Many historians consider Lemhi Pass the most important site along the Lewis and Clark... |
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Leonis Adobe Museum Calabasas, California
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Visitors can experience ranch life of the late 1800's, visit a Victorian-style early Los... |
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Lewis And Clark Interpretive Center Washburn, North Dakota
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The displays include Native American artifacts, a buffalo robe visitors will be able to... |
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Lewis And Clark National Historic Trail Kooskia, Idaho
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition, which occurred from 1804 to 1806, was one of the most... |
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Lincoln County Historical Society Museum Of Pioneer History Chandler, Oklahoma
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Visitors to the museum are first greeted by the old-fashioned traditional 'general store... |
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Lincoln Douglas Debate Museum Charleston, Illinois
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Tour the only museum in Illinois retracing the senatorial debates of 1858 between Abraham... |
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Lincoln Park Historical Society & Museum Lincoln Park, Michigan
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The Historical Society of Lincoln Park supports the Lincoln Park Historical Museum in its... |
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Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site Petersburg, Illinois
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Everyone acquainted with the Village of New Salem realizes it is more than a collection... |
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Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site Springfield, Illinois
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The Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices are within the only remaining building in which Abraham... |
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Little Thompson Valley Pioneer Museum Berthoud, Colorado
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Once home to the Native American, trapper, cattleman, and homesteader, Little Thompson... |
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Littleton Historical Museum Littleton, Colorado
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Located on 39 acres, the museum consists of two living history farms (one from the 1860... |
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Livingston Depot Center Livingston, Montana
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Its majestic colonnade and ornate architectural detail greeted travelers until 1979, when... |
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Log Cabin Village Fort Worth, Texas
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Today, each of the historical structures, furnished with authentic artifacts, provides a... |
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Lompoc Museum Lompoc, California
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The Museum was established in Lompoc’s former Carnegie Library to display s... |
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Long Camp Historical Site Kamiah, Idaho
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On Highway 12 near Kamiah a sign at milepost 68 notes that the Lewis and Clark expedition... |
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Longmont Museum & Cultural Center Longmont, Colorado
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Two of the four exhibit galleries, the Longmont gallery and the Longs Peak Room, contain... |
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Los Altos History Museum Los Altos, California
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The Museum’s permanent interactive exhibit, "The Crown of the Peninsula,... |
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Louisville Historical Museum Louisville, Colorado
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The main building is historically known as the Jacoe Store and features a variety of... |
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Luther Burbank Home And Gardens Santa Rosa, California
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Luther Burbank was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1849. In California, his... |
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Madeline Island Museum La Pointe, Wisconsin
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The original museum is four historic log structures that have been relocated and... |
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Manatee County Historical Commission Bradenton, Florida
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The commission's responsibilities include: maintaining restored buildings and grounds... |
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Manatee Village Historical Park Bradenton, Florida
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The Manatee Village Historical Park features a number of original buildings, including a... |
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Mandarin Store And Post Office Jacksonville, Florida
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In the 1800s, Mandarin was a small farming village that shipped oranges, grapefruit,... |
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Mansker's Fort Goodlettsville, Tennessee
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Mansker's Fort is an authentic reconstruction of a 1779 frontier forted station typical... |
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Mariposa Museum Mariposa, California
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The Museum features ofther mining equipment and historical buildings have been brought to... |
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings House And Farm Yard Hawthorne, Florida
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This site was the home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, the author of many major literary... |
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Matheson Museum Gainesville, Florida
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The museum is flanked by three other sites: The Matheson House dates from 1867 and... |
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Mazamas, The Portland, Oregon
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Responding to an advertisement run in the Morning Oregonian of June 12, 1894: “To... |
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Mcallister House Museum Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Built a year and a half after the city was founded, when most houses were of vernacular... |
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Meadow Farm Museum Glen Allen, Virginia
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One of the last remaining 19th century farms in Henrico County , this 1860 farm is now a... |
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Mendocino County Museum Willits, California
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Exhibits cover a number of topics, including the 1960's counterculture, the Greenwood... |
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Merced County Courthouse Museum Merced, California
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The museum is located in the county's three-story courthouse built in 1875, one of the... |
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Mercur Ghost Town Mercur, Utah
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The town first came into being in 1870 as Lewiston, when gold was discovered at the head... |
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Micanopy Historical Society Museum Micanopy, Florida
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An abundance of exhibits reside in the Micanopy Historical Society Museum, which is... |
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Millyard Museum Manchester, New Hampshire
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The Millyard Museum is housed in Mill No. 3 at the corner of Commercial and Pleasant... |
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Mission San Luis Tallahassee, Florida
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As Florida's only reconstructed mission, Mission San Luis offers an invaluable glimpse... |
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Modoc County Historical Museum Alturas, California
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Modoc County Historical Museum houses a large collection of artifacts and firearms... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
