November 2010

The museum lies on the original 8.65-acre homestead owned by Chief Ouray and his wife, Chipeta. Built in 1956 and expanded in 1998, the museum offers one of the most complete collections of the Ute people. The grounds include the Chief Ouray Memorial park, Chipeta's Crypt, and a native plants garden. Recently renovated and expanded, the museum now includes the Montrose Visitor Information Center, gallery space, classrooms, and a museum store.

Landmark homes, local treasures, and lovely gardens make the Trinidad history Museum a great place to spend the day. The complex includes: the Baca House (colorful furnishings in thie unique adobe home evoke the lifestyle of the community), the Bloom Mansion and Historic Gardens (Victorian home of banker and cattle baron Frank Bloom surrounded by century-old trees and beautiful gardens), and the Santa Fe Trail Museum (a historic adobe building housing family heirlooms, commercial goods, and photographs that tell the stories of the people and events of Trinidad’s past)

James V. Dexter's surprisingly plush 1879 log cabin was the Leadville residence of the mining investor and businessman. By that time he was already wealthy man and loved a wide variety of activities including hunting, and collecting coins, gems, etchings, and paintings.

August R. Meyer's 1878 Greek Revival clapboard house (now called Healy House) was built for his bride, Emma. The home features lavish Victorian furnishings collected in Leadville, including objects belonging to silver tycoon Horace and Augusta Tabor, along with other Leadville pioneers.

Today the Loop is a popular tourist attraction and an uncommon way to see the Clear Creek Valley. Along the route visitors may stop for guided tours of a historic silver mine. The park is located on 978 acres and includes an 1884 depot, the Morrison Interpretive Center, two 1860s mines, an 1871 mill building, four reconstructed mine buildings, a locomotive maintenance building, the 1874 Pohle House, and a new rolling stock shelter.

Established in 1858 in southern Colorado, Fort Garland, with its garrison of over 100 men, served to protect the earliest settlers in the San Luis Valley. The museum includes a permanent exhibition focusing on the opportunities black soldiers found in the military, and the controversies that surrounded them, during the Plains Indian Wars period from 1866 through 1891.

The museum building showcases the city's history and the various cultural and ethnic groups in Pueblo and the region. The site also features the Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byways Information Center.

Enjoy this distinctive house museum, which includes guided tours as well as a short film featuring the careers of these two pioneer Denver families and the city they built.

The New Hampshire Antiquarian Society, founded as The Philomathic Club by three Hopkinton residents in 1859, began as a literary discussion group and was incorporated under its current name in 1875. The Society's collection of music scores, journals, diaries, books, maps, and artifacts is housed in The William H. Long Memorial Building, a gift to the Society in 1890. The Long Building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

"Harrisville's history includes in miniature many developments important to the history of the nation. Here one finds, successively, a frontier community of self-sufficient farmers, the utilization of waterpower to run small mills, the erection of a factory village, the rise and fall of a paternalistic authority, the color and conflict brought by mass immigration, the railroad mania, clashes between farmers and mill population, a separatist movement, the transformation of an economy punctuated by booms and busts, and the slow growth of a sense of community." - John Borden Armstrong

The Hancock New Hampshire Historical Society is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1903 by twenty-seven founders.

The house, property and museum are maintained entirely by society volunteers as a public trust and a community service. The collection of archives and artifacts are the treasures of Hancock's past and include such items as furniture, china, glass, military items, musical instruments, a large collection of tools, manuscripts, photographs, paintings, textiles and more.

In addition to the permanent displays, there are changing exhibits each summer.