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 State by State Guide to Historic Museums and Sites to Visit
Compiled by Penn State
Center for Medieval Studies
What follows is a the beginnings of what we hope to become a comprehensive
list of historic mills, iron sites, agricultural museums and other
sites in the US that you could visit with your family or classes.
These vary from full-experience museums to simple restored houses.
We certainly cannot claim full knowledge of even the ones we list,
so please see their websites and contact them before visiting.
This is very much a work in progress, so please help us by letting us
know about your historic sites to add to the list. Please click
the envelope link ( )
to email us a site in your state. Please also see
our list of partner historic museums
- Bakersfield – Kern County Museum - hands-on
museum of California history, including an 1890 blacksmith shop
- Coloma - Suttter's Mill - home of the 1849 goldrush, but a reconstructed
sawmill
- Negaunee – Michigan
Iron Industry Museum -
history of Michigan iron industry from 1848-1855, including hands-on
exhibits and outdoor interpretive paths
- Cimarron – Aztec Mill -
Housed in Aztec Mill, a grist mill built in 1864, to furnish
grain to the Indians, the museum exhibits regional artifacts,
memorabilia, and early photographs pertaining to the history
of Northeast New Mexico
- Cold Spring – West Point Foundry Ruins -
- East Meredith – Handford
Mills Museum – 150-year-old
working mill, powered by waterwheel, saws logs to lumber, grain
to feed. Blacksmithing workshops offered
- Long Island – Water Mill Museum -
operating water-powered gristmill dating back to 1644 and museum
- Philipsburg – Philipsburg Manor -
- Bethabara - Historic Bethabara
Park - archaeological
and landscape evidence of the agricultural life of a colonial
Moravian settlement, including reconstructions of an early timber-frame
barn, log house and gardens
- Upper Sandusky – Indian Mill -
The mill, built in 1861, is the nation's first educational museum
of milling in its original structure
- Salem – Mission Mill Museum - museum
interprets the history of Jason Lee's Methodist Mission to Oregon
in 1834, including an original water-powered turbine of the woolen
mill
- Bethlehem – Historic
Bethlehem -
- Cornwall – Cornwall Furnace -
- Ephrata – Ephrata
Cloister -
- Hopewell – Hopewell Furnace -
- Howard (Milesburg) – Eagle Ironworks at Curtin
Furnace -
- Huntingdon – Greenwood Furnace -
- Newport – Shoaff's Mill - located in Little
Buffalo State Park
- State College – Centre Furance Mansion -
- State College – Pasto
Agricultural Museum -
approximately 1,000 rare and unusual farm and household items
dating back to the 1840s
- Shelburne – Shelburne Museum - 17th-
to 20th-century artifacts and historic buildings, including a
blacksmith shop
- Greenbush (Sheboygan Co.) - Herring
Sawmill - reconstructed 1880s water-powered
sawmill
- Eagle (Waukesha Co.) - Old
World Wisconsin - living history museum, strong on agriculture
- Cassville – Stonefield -
home of Wisconsin’s first governor and Wisconsin State Agricultural
Museum
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