History

Reference, Museums, History, Historic Houses - Raynham Hall Historic House Museum. A historic home on the shores of Oyster Bay, Long Island, revealing life from the American Revolution to the beginning of the Gold Coast.

Overlooking the Hudson River in historic Tarrytown NY, Lyndhurst, a country estate built in 1838 for the mayor of New York City and later purchased by railroad titan Jay Gould, is a magnificent Gothic Revival mansion with elaborately decorated rooms holding a wealth of artwork, stained glass and original furnishings.

Reference, Museums, History, Historic Houses - Old Fort Johnson. Features restored fieldstone house built in 1749 by Sir William Johnson in the Mohawk Valley.

Reference, Museums, History, Historic Houses - Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society. Non-profit, voluntary organization concerned with the political, social and cultural history of its community and of Long Island.

Ephraim McDowell House in Danville, Kentucky historical, descendent, and tourist information. On Christmas morning, 1809, Dr. McDowell began his historic operation. The ovarian tumor he removed from Mrs. Crawford weighed twenty-two and one-half pounds. The surgery was performed without benefit of anesthetic or antisepsis, neither of which was known to the medical profession at the time. Mrs. Crawford's surgery was successful.

The Henry Clay Estate

Reference, Museums, History, Historic Houses - Thomas Edison House. Home of the inventor who worked in Louisville as a telegrapher from 1866-67.

Liberty Hall Historic Site was home to Kentucky's first U.S. Senator, John Brown, and his family. The site was also home to another U.S. Senator, a Vice-Presidential candidate, a Governor of Missouri, a Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a French Ambassador, a U.S. District Attorney, three U.S. Army colonels, and a beloved children's author Margaret Wise Brown

Reference, Museums, History, Historic Houses - Locust Grove Historic Home. Circa 1790 Georgian mansion served as the last home of General George Rogers Clark, Revolutionary War hero.

Reference, Museums, History, Historic Houses - Conrad-Caldwell House Museum. Richardsonian Romanesque style architecture house was built for Theophilus Conrad, who made his fortune in the tanning business.

Reference, Museums, History, Historic Houses - Sherman House. Birthplace of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and Senator John Sherman.

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens