November 2010

[The Museum of Coral Springs History] has now been renovated and is designated a Florida Heritage Site. The museum presents the master plans, subdivision plats and maps showing the how the City grew from a population of five to over 126,711 in 42 years. There are models and historic items of interest on display. (from website.)

The Museum offers a way to rediscovery America's movie pioneers, and see their remarkable work in an authentic setting - a theater where Charlie Chaplin and Broncho Billy Anderson saw themselves and their contemporaries on the screen. This museum keeps the spirit of silent films alive. (from website)

As Florida's only reconstructed mission, Mission San Luis offers an invaluable glimpse into the state's Catholic past under Spanish colonial rule. The mission's history is made accessible by living history presentations and hands-on exhibits. The Indians who lived alongside the European settlers also receive special emphasis in the council house and in the reenactments of native ball games.

The Arthurdale Historic District was the first of FDR's "New Deal" towns, visited by Eleanor Roosevelt. The New Deal Homestead Museum is located on site.

Arthurdale, WV, was first known as The Reedsville Project by the government employees who were sent here to establish the first New Deal community under the first of three Franklin Delano Roosevelt administrations.

First completed in 1565 of pine posts and cypress fronds by the founders of the city and continually restructured until 1788, this Spanish Colonial and Renaissance Revival Roman Catholic cathedral was the first of its kind to be established in the United States. Today, visitors can see the original coquina stone walls and façade, attend daily Mass, and view the intricate stained glass windows.

The museum has a number of permanent exhibits on the Maidu Indians, early Sutter County settlers, agriculture, the Sutter Buttes, and school life. Smaller displays include transportation, women, Lola Montez, local photographs, the 1955 flood, the stereoscope, a Baldwin player piano and the old Meridian Bridge. Some special items of interest are the restored Yuba Ball Tractor, John Sutter's Gun, and Lola Montez's dressing table. The Exhibits combine artifacts, photographs and interpretive labels that provide a self-guided tour.

Birthplace of the Founder of Mother's Day, this house was the first field headquarters of Gen George McClellan. The house serves as a museum to Anna Jarvis with one room devoted to McClellan memorabilia.

Anna Jarvis was born in the village of Webster, Taylor County, West Virginia, on May 1, 1864, in a two-story wooden house built by her father, Granville E. Jarvis, in 1854. The family occupied the house for eleven years during one of the most exciting periods of American history.

The house became a focal point of the Civil War when General George B. McClellan used it as his headquarters, and his troops were encamped across the road in what is now Ocean Pearl Felton Historic Park. Webster at that time was an important depot for both troops and supplies. The Wheeling-Staunton Pike (Route 250) which ran in front of the house connected the two biggest cities in what was then the state of Virginia. The Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum is located four miles south of Grafton on U.S. Route 119/250.

An abundance of exhibits reside in the Micanopy Historical Society Museum, which is housed in a warehouse dating from the 1890s. They cover everything from the pre-Columbian Timucuan Indians who inhabited the area before the arrival of European settlers, to the explorations of early pioneer William Bartram, to the settlements that sprung up in the opening years of the 19th century, to the Seminole Wars and the Civil War, to the ways of life that predominated at the start of the 20th century.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation's first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries. The Smithsonian American Art Museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America's rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. More than 7,000 artists are represented in the collection, including major masters, such as John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Helen Frankenthaler, Christo, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Lee Friedlander, Nam June Paik, Martin Puryear and Robert Rauschenberg.