This museum documents the history of the Cherokee tribe in Stuart and the surrounding area.
Visitors here enjoy displays about Indian artifacts and learn about the culture from members of the Cherokee tribe. From deer skin regalia to arrow heads and historical pictures, visitors can enjoy learning about the Native American tribe of the area.
This house was the home to Harriet Beecher Stowe prior to her marriage and to her father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers, and antislavery and womens rights advocates. The Beechers lived in Cincinnati for nearly 20 years, from 1832 to the early 1850's, before returning East. Shortly after leaving Cincinnati and basing her writing on her experiences in Cincinnati, in 1851-1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe authored the best-selling book of its time, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
At this museum, visitors learn about the history and geology of the region through fossils, artifacts, and photographs. Topic explored include the Ice Age, Woodland Indians, the Civil War, and the company-town era. The King-Stuart House (1795) and Salt Park, a reconstructed salt furnace, are nearby.
This historic site includes the Visitor Center (1873 Carriage House), the Harriet Beecher Stowe House which is open for tours, and the Katharine Seymour Day House. Modest by the standards of the Nook Farm neighborhood, the Stowe house contains 17 rooms and halls. Harriet Beecher Stowe counted Mark Twain's family as neighbors, as they lived close by.
Saratoga Spa State Park, distinguished by its classical architecture and listed as a National Historic Landmark, is noted for its diverse cultural, aesthetic and recreational resources. In addition to the nationally-known Saratoga Performing Arts Center, the Spa Little Theater, the National Museum of Dance, the Saratoga Automobile Museum, the Gideon Putnam Resort and Spa and the Lincoln mineral baths, the park offers a multitude of traditional recreation opportunities.
The Peerless Pool Complex consists of a main pool with a zero-depth entry, separate slide pool with a 19' double slide and a children's wading pool with a mushroom fountain. The Victoria Pool is a smaller pool surrounded by arched promenades. Both pool areas include showers, locker rooms and restrooms.
Covering 1249 acres, the park serves as the site of what remains of the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the first incline railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in central Pennsylvania. Completed in 1834, it played a critical role in opening the interior of the United States beyond the Appalachian Mountains to settlement and commerce. Visitors can explore several trails through the forest that lead to notable landmarks of the track.
These structures include a jail, hanging house, store, churches, private residences and inn, which served as a stagecoach stop. The Wilderness Road Regional Museum includes rooms furnished in period style and several outbuildings. Visitors can see PJ's Carousels. creator of reproduction carousel horses, and Kathy's Kottage, seller of art and antiques.
What is now the Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site was the Porter’s second home, built in 1913. The vast, undeveloped forest of this site provided a rich source of material for her nature studies, writings and photography. Guided tours of the Porter's log cabin are available. There are many historically significant and intriguing artifacts to be found inside the cabin. The bookshelves are filled with books from Gene's personal library, and the antique McCray icebox refrigerator has just been packed with a new block of "ice", giving the cabin the same look and feel it would have had when the Porter's lived there. The gravesites of Gene Stratton-Porter and her daughter Jeannette are located at this site.
Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925. When the O'Connors lived here, the building was a single-family house. Her childhood home is on the south end of Lafayette Square, just steps away from the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. The parlor level consisted of the current large living room, a dining room, a kitchen and a sun room. The back yard was where 5-year-old Mary Flannery O'Connor taught a chicken to walk backwards.
Museum of Western Virginia history and German-American farm operated by Ferrum College
Operated by Ferrum College, this museum highlights the folk traditions of western Virginia through music, crafts, food, decorative arts, and architecture. The 1800 farmstead with costumed interpreterse and historic breeds of livestock recreates life on a German-American farm.