The Park focuses on Lincoln's life in Kentucky. The Birthplace Unit demonstrates Lincoln's humble beginnings with a symbolic birth cabin enshrined within a neo-classic Memorial Building. The Boyhood Home Unit at Knob Creek Farm was home to Lincoln during his formative years. Events in Kentucky helped mold a young boy into the man who became the nation's sixteenth President. Read More
- 540-721-2094
- 12130 Booker T Washington Hwy, Hardy, VA, USA
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in April 1856 on the 207-acre farm of James Burroughs. After the Civil War, Washington became the first principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School. Later as an adviser, author and orator, his past would influence his philosophies as the most influential African American of his era. Read More
- 618-332-1782
- 107 Elm St, Cahokia, IL, USA
The Cahokia Courthouse was built as a residence around 1740, when present-day Illinois was a colony of France. In 1793 the structure was purchased by the Common Pleas Court of the United States Northwest Territory and subsequently became a center of territorial political and legal activity. The building is historically significant as the oldest courthouse in Illinois and the… Read More
- 706-866-9241
- 3370 Lafayette Road, Chickamauga, GA, USA
The park includes three historic homes. Brotherton House marks the spot where the Union line was broken, Snodgrass House served as a Union field hospital, and Cravens House served as a Conferderate field hospital. Read More
- 603-934-5057
- 131 North Road, Franklin, NH, USA
The Daniel Webster Birthplace is associated with the birth and early childhood years of Daniel Webster, one of our country's most respected orators and statesmen. While the site affords a view of the early years of Daniel Webster, it also provides a glimpse of 1700s farm life in the infant years of the United States. Read More
- 970-453-9767
- 111 N Ridge St, Breckenridge, CO, USA
Edwin Carter came to Breckenridge in 1868 seeking gold and fortune, but his goals changed when he saw the devastation mining had on the environment and local wildlife. Carter became a taxidermist and collected thousands of Rocky Mountain animal specimens in his museum, which doubled as his home. Scientists from all over the world came to Breckenridge to see… Read More
- 541-576-2251
- 64696 Fort Rock Road, Fort Rock, OR, USA
A group of eastern Oregon homestead homes, church, and school buildings assembled in a village setting, with furnishing from that era. Read More
- 608-742-2949
- 1824 State Highway 33, Portage, WI, USA
Fort Winnebago Surgeons Quarters is a nationally-registered historic site and museum located in Portage, Wisconsin, and owned and operated by the Wisconsin Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The site features two historic buildings: the Surgeons Quarters, where the U.S. Army Surgeons of Fort Winnebago resided from 1834 to 1854, and the Garrison School, a one-room schoolhouse that served… Read More
- 559-683-6570
- Fresno Flats Historical Village & Park, High School Road, Oakhurst, CA, USA
Fresno Flats Historic Village and Park recaptures the flavor of 19th Century life in the Sierra Nevada foothills and mountains of Central California. Eastern Madera County is the southern end of the historic Mother Lode gold fields, but the people who settled here came not so much for gold but more to build their lives and raise their families,… Read More
- 206-854-3790
- 1205 Pleasant Point, Rome City, IN, USA
The two story log cabin of novelist Gene Stratton Porter is preserved. The house is surrounded by wood, wildflowers, and wildlife. Read More
- 937-372-4606
- 74 West Church Street, Xenia, OH, USA
The museum is in a restored Victorian. Next to the museum is the James Galloway Log House, built in 1799. It has survived a dismantling and re-creation in 1936, and the tornado of 1974. Read More
- 920-448-5150
- 2640 S Webster Ave, Green Bay, WI, USA
A complex of furnished historical buildings is grouped in four theme areas. Historic homes included are the 1762 fur trader's cabin, 1776 Tank Cottage, 1842 Beupre Place, and a Belgian farmhouse. Read More
- 501-324-9351
- 200 East 3rd Street, Little Rock, AR, USA
The historical museum is comprised of 13 buildings, including the Conway House, the 1820 Hinderliter House, the Noland House, and the 1824 Woodruff House. Read More
- 720-497-7650
- 4208 Timbervale Drive, Evergreen, CO, USA
Hiwan Homestead Museum is a 25-room log mansion built in the Rustic architectural style between 1893 and 1942. Known as Camp Neosho by the Douglas family from 1893 to 1939, the site was renamed the Hiwan Ranch by the second owners, the Buchanan family. Purchased by Jefferson County Open Space Department in 1974, the Museum opened in 1975 and… Read More
- 303-674-5429
- 620 South Soda Creek Drive, Evergreen, CO, USA
The Humphrey Museum and ranch was started by J.J. Clarke in the 1870s as a cattle ranch. Mr. Clarke built a small log cabin where he lived during the summers. After Mr. Clarke's death, the family sold more than 350 acres to the Humphreys in the 1920s. For the remainder of the 20th Century, the Humphreys lived and ranched… Read More
- 260-368-7428
- 200 E 6th St, Geneva, IN, USA
The two story Limberlost Cabin, home of author, photographer, and naturalist Gene Stratton Porter was built using white cedar logs and redwood shingles. It was designed to blend in with the environment. The home contains some of her original furnishings, personal belongings, and photographic works. Read More
- 217-422-4919
- 5580 North Fork Road, Decatur, IL, USA
The three acre complex includes galleries and a historic prairie village. Read More
- 715-747-2415
- 226 Colonel Woods Ave, La Pointe, WI, USA
Among the exhibits are a sailor's home. Read More
- 509-925-1943
- 921 N Ferguson Rd, Ellensburg, WA, USA
Built in 1875 by Samuel Olmstead out of cottonwood logs from the Yakima River Canyon. The structure and windows are all original and of east coast design. Most of the furnishings are original. The cabin is surrounded by 100 year old historic gardens, barns, outbuildings and antique farm equipment. Read More
- 928-445-3122
- 415 West Gurley Street, Prescott, AZ, USA
Sharlot Hall Museum is named after its founder, Sharlot Mabridth Hall (1870-1943), who became well known as a poet, activist, politician, and Arizona’s first territorial historian. Sharlot Hall was one of the West’s most remarkable women. As early as 1907, Ms. Hall saw the need to save Arizona's history and planned to develop a museum. She began to collect… Read More
- 973-540-311
- The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms, New Jersey 10, Morris Plains, NJ, USA
This 30-acre National Historic Landmark is the centerpiece of Gustav Stickley’s early 20th century country estate. Stickley was a major figure in the American Arts and Crafts movement who combined the roles of designer, manufacturer, architect, publisher, philosopher, and social critic. His family home, the Log House, is run as a historic house museum, where visitors are welcomed for… Read More
- 6363795574
- 1000 Jessup Dr W, O'Fallon, MO 63366
At about the same time that Daniel Boone arrived, Jacob Zumwalt and his extended family settled in the O’Fallon area circa 1798, building a large log home. A few years later, when the War of 1812 set off deadly guerilla raids with Native Americans ambushing and killing American settlers, local families fled to the shelter provided by the Zumwalt’s… Read More