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Museum Village at Old Smith's Clove, Monroe; Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Old Bethpage; Old Stone Fort, Schoharie; Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn; Aaron House of Niagara Falls, [Niagara Falls] North Carolina. A museum interpreter explains aspects of a 19th-century apothecary in Old Salem. Bethabara Historic District, Winston-Salem
Blue Heron, also known as Mine 18, is a former coal mining community or coal town on the banks of the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States, that has been recreated and is maintained as an interpretive history area in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. [3] Coal tipple at Blue Heron
Includes George Washington Museum, Masonic exhibits, a replica of the Alexandria-Washington Lodge room as it was in 1802, library and chapel George Washington's Gristmill: Lorton: Fairfax: Northern: Mill: Operated by Mount Vernon, reconstructed 18th-century grist mill George Washington's Office Museum: Winchester: Winchester: Shenandoah Valley ...
There is a stop in the historic coal mining town of Blue Heron, Kentucky which can be toured. There is also a gift shop and snack bar with picnic shelter as well as hiking trails in Blue Heron. [1] The railroad is restoring a large 0-6-0 steam locomotive from the Union railroad built by ALCO in 1944 and uses diesel locomotives for its excursion ...
The museum has changing exhibitions on local and national topics related to African Americans. [ 4 ] The museum also operates the Alexandria African American Heritage Park, a 9-acre (3.6 ha) park at 500 Holland Lane, which contains a 1-acre (0.40 ha) nineteenth-century African-American cemetery that was buried under a city landfill in the 1960s.
Alexandria become a major trade hub and was incorporated in 1789. [2] Alexandria was known as the "Port City" of the Potomac and was one of the largest ports in the country by 1790. [3] George Washington was a Town Trustee, philanthropist, and resident. Robert E. Lee grew up in Old Town and, just as Washington did, attended Christ Church.
Pages in category "Museums in Alexandria, Virginia" ... George Washington Masonic National Memorial; L. Lee–Fendall House; Lyceum (Alexandria, Virginia) N.
This list of museums in Kentucky is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.