November 2010

Located directly across from the Saratoga Race Course, home to the oldest thoroughbred horse race in the U.S., the 17,000-square-foot museum celebrates America’s legendary jockeys, trainers, and horses. Visitors can experience the interactive “Ready to Ride” exhibit which simulates racing from a jockey’s point of view, view trophies, uniforms, and other memorabilia spanning over three centuries of equestrian sport.

Founded in 1977, the Museum opened in 1982 next to the Cannon Mountain Tram, Franconia Notch State Park. It is the goal of the New England Ski Museum to collect, preserve, and exhibit elements from the broad spectrum of ski history, particularly in New England, for the purposes of research, education, and entertainment.

Exhibits and programs at the Plantation Agricultural Museum interpret the history of cotton agriculture in Arkansas from statehood in 1836 through World War II when agricultural practices quickly became mechanized. Visit the Dortch Gin Exhibit Building in order to learn how cotton was ginned. The museum gives visitors a better idea of farming life during the Plantation Era.

A non-profit organization, the Exeter Historical Society offers regular programs of local historical interest and is a repository for documents, maps, photos, artifacts, and other ephemera pertaining to Exeter, New Hampshire.

They maintain a research library, act as a resource for genealogical research, co-sponsor historical events and publications, create exhibits hoping to encourage historic preservation, and document today’s events as the history of tomorrow.

The Pine Bluff/Jefferson County Historical Museum traces the colorful past of Pine Bluff and Jefferson County. The museum offers a large duck hunting display, an extensive doll collection, miniature houses, manufactured bow and arrows, and 1,464 miniature glass slippers. The museum also includes a roomful of military artifacts. In addition, the museum boasts a collection of stereoscopic photographs from the first World War and as well as artifacts from World War II. Other displays and exhibits include an early settlers exhibit, wedding dresses display and Black History.

Long known locally as the Hampton Historical Society, the society was actually incorporated in 1925 as the Meeting House Green Memorial Association to honor the original settlers of Hampton. A descendant of one of those families, Edward Tuck, generously donated funds to purchase a house on the site of the original meeting house green. The land surrounding the house was laid out as a park, and the house was turned into a small museum, appropriately named the Tuck Museum.

The museum has continued to grow. Other buildings on the Green have joined the main house as exhibition areas. There is a nineteenth-century schoolhouse, a farm museum, and a fire-fighting museum.

The North Little Rock History Commission maintains an open reference library of source materials for curious citizens. The Commission strives to collect, preserve, record and interpret all historic materials and artifacts for the benefit of the public. Collecting material relevant to the entire state, the Commission places a special emphasis on the history of the city of North Little Rock.

The New Hampshire Historical Society is the premier organization saving, preserving, and sharing New Hampshire's history. 

The Society’s 1911 headquarters building, located in the heart of the capital city, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to exhibitions about New Hampshire history, art, and culture. 

Run by the Darke County Historical Society, the museum features exhibits on Annie Oakley and the Northwest Territory Era. The museum also provides several history lectures and presentations.

Frank Butler, Annie's husband of 42 years, their faithful dog, Dave, and their life together is unfolded in the Annie Oakley Center. Visitors can learn more about this American original at the Annie Oakley Center, located in the Coppock Wing of Garst Museum.

The painting of Chief Tarhe, "The Crane", Grand Sacrem of the Wyandots is part of the collection of paintings, drawings and artifacts displayed on the first floor of the Garst House. Most of the first floor is devoted to the mid 1700's-early 1800's era, but it also includes items from mastodon bones to artifacts from Ohio's earliest inhabitants.

The Heritage House Museum is dedicated to preserving the history of Montgomery County and providing educational experiences relating to that history The museum focuses on preserving the words, deeds, and activities that made up the daily lives of previous residents. Special emphasis will be placed on the effects and contributions of the timber industry, quartz crystal, and Lake Ouachita.

The Heritage House Museum preserves the colorful history of Montgomery County utilizing exhibits, archival records, other activities and special events. The museum provides educational activities through interpretive exhibits, programs, traveling exhibits, tours, publications, research and other activities.