November 2010

This museum interprets the history of the Mobile Bay Area and Southwestern Alabama.

Explore 300 years of Mobile history and material culture in the 1857 National Landmark building, the Southern Market/Old City Hall. Visit the museum and learn about the life and times of a great Gulf Coast City. Don’t miss the exciting changing exhibition galleries, the hands-on Discovery Room and the museum’s store, The Shop in the Southern Market.

A modern museum housed in the Southern Market/Old City Hall National Historic Landmark, the Museum of Mobile is a visual masterpiece that provides an unparalleled museum experience.

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 the story of the Boulder Canyon Project as it was experienced by the men and women who braved the desolation of the Southern Nevada desert to build Hoover Dam and Boulder City.

Located at the site of the Manhattan Project laboratory, this museum provides exhibits on this project, as well as on Native Americans and geology.

The Los Alamos Historical Museum is dedicated to preserving, protecting and interpreting the history of Los Alamos.  Housed in the guest cottage of the Los Alamos Ranch School, a favorite place of Gen. Leslie Groves during the Manhattan Project , the museum features award winning exhibits on area geology, anthropology, the Ranch School, and the Manhattan Project.

The Old Courthouse Museum houses the headquarters of the Monroe County Heritage Museum, a conglomerate of many local historic sites.

The beautiful old Courthouse on the town square, which now houses the Monroe County Heritage Museums, served as a model for the famed courtroom scene from "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, a Monroeville native.

This society is housed in the Laird Cottage/Geneva Mercer Museum, which interprets the life and preserves the work of Geneva Mercer, a sculptor, artist and Marengo County native.

The Laird Cottage/Geneva Mercer Museum is a restored 1870 residence with Greek Revival and Italianate style.

The Wessels farm brings to life the realities of farming in the 1920s and gives a history of change that has occurred in agricultural technology during the 20th century.

This historic district was the site of significant events during the colonial and revolutionary periods in North Carolina.

Located on the Roanoke River, the town of Halifax developed into a commercial and political center at the time of the American Revolution. North Carolina's Fourth Provincial Congress met in Halifax in the spring of 1776. On April 12 that body unanimously adopted a document later called the "Halifax Resolves," which was the first official action by an entire colony recommending independence from England.

Scheduled guided walking tours take visitors into several authentically restored and furnished buildings. Area of special interest will also be pointed out to visitors. A self-guided tour is also available for those who do not have time for guided tours. For this tour, a map of the site and wayside exhibits provide educational information regarding the buildings and area.

This historic home was built at the turn of the nineteenth century by John Haywood, a North Carolina State Treasurer.

John Haywood, the state's first elected treasurer, built this Federal-style frame house in 1799 for his family, in whose hands it remained until 1977 when the property and furnishings were left to the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of North Carolina. It is the oldest house on its original site within the city limits of Raleigh. The house museum contains family portraits, original furnishings, and a permanent doll collection.

Located in Auburn's Les Gove Park, the White River Valley Museum tells the story of South King County from the Native People, through the Settlers, and into the 20th Century.

At the White River Valley Museum, the mixing of diverse cultures is presented in a lively, evocative way. People of the past come to life with diary excerpts, artifacts and photographs. Modern visitors get a taste of the past as they walk through a pioneer cabin, sit in a one-room schoolhouse, stroll along a 1920s street and climb aboard a caboose.

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 Pratt mansion was leveled. After more than a decade of regret at having lost forever one of our most treasured of historic homes, the Prattville Study Club, then a group of 50 women, initiated the establishment of a county historical society. In 1976, our nation’s bi-centennial year, the Autauga County Heritage Association’s first president, Evelyn Striplin, was elected from among the 309 charter members of the association