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Wayne P. Anderson. Travels Into Our Past: America's Living History Museums & Historical Sites
Introduction
Why visit living history museums and historical sites?
Re-enactors
Future living history museums
SECTION ONE: PRE-COLONIAL AMERICA. 1. Exploring the Santa Maria. Columbus, Ohio
2. Surrounded by History. St. Augustine, Florida
Castillo de San Marcos
Ghost Tour
3. A Failed Attempt at Settlement. Jamestown, Virginia
SECTION TWO: COLONIAL AMERICA. 4. Colonial Michilimackinac. Mackinaw City, Michigan
5. The Moravians Built a City. Old Salem, North Carolina
6. A Step Back in Time. Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
7. A Major Effect on History. Yorktown, Virginia
The Yorktown Victory Center
Colonial National Historical Park
8. American Village. Montevallo, Alabama
9. Moss-Adorned History. Savannah, Georgia
Preserving Savannah’s charm
SECTION THREE: PRE-CIVIL WAR AMERICA. 10. Mill Creek Discovery Park. Mackinaw City, Michigan
11. Pioneer Ingenuity. Nauvoo Village, Illinois
Pageant tells history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
12. Arabia Steamboat Museum. Kansas City, Missouri
13. Outdoor Museum of the Victorian Midwest. Galena, Illinois
14. Mark Twain’s World. Hannibal, Missouri
15. A Meeting with Lincoln. Springfield, Illinois
SECTION FOUR: THE COWBOY ERA. 16. Reviving the Old West. Old Tucson, Arizona
17. National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
18. Cowboy Town USA. Wickenburg, Arizona
19. Oklahoma’s Land Rush Museums. Perry, Oklahoma
The one-room school
20. Cattle Raisers Museum. Fort Worth, Texas
21. Miss Laura’s Bordello, a Hanging Judge and Belle Starr Fort. Smith, Arkansas
The Hanging Judge and Belle Starr
SECTION FIVE: THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE. 22. Ellis Island’s Memories. New York, New York
23. Institute of Texas Cultures. San Antonio, Texas
24. Old World Wisconsin. Eagle, Wisconsin
The Norwegian farms
The Danish farm
The German farms
25. Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum. Decorah, Iowa
26. Simple but Sophisticated. Amana Colonies, Iowa
Theater brings Amana’s history to life
27.Sweden in Kansas. Lindsborg, Kansas
SECTION SIX: AMERICAN RURAL LIFE. 28. Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village. Dearborn, Michigan
Blend of old, new ideas
Ford’s philosophy
Hiding the high-tech
29. Georgia’s Agrirama. Tifton, Georgia
30. Biltmore’s Antler Hill Village. Asheville, North Carolina
31. Smoky Mountains Park Illustrates Difficult Times. Tennessee and North Carolina
The park
The farms
Civilized glitter
32. Ray County Museum: Missouri’s Attic. Richmond, Missouri
What do you do with a County Poor Farm?
What’s to see?
33. Frontier Village. Jamestown, North Dakota
34. Wellington Farm USA. Grayling, Michigan
SECTION SEVEN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICA’S CITIES. 35. A Story of the South. Macon, Georgia
Macon’s ‘Palace of the South,’ Hay House retains its glory
36. Levine Museum of the New South. Charlotte, North Carolina
37. Trolley Tours into the Past. Asheville, North Carolina
Thomas Wolfe Museum
38. Where Misfits Fit. Eureka Springs, Arkansas
39: A Bumpy Ride through History. Independence, Missouri
40. A Wealth of History. St. Joseph, Missouri
Glore Psychiatric Museum
Patee House Museum
41. Alcatraz. San Francisco, California
SECTION EIGHT: MINES, STEAMBOATS, AND TRAINS: BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE. 42. Exhibition Coal Mine. Beckley, West Virginia
43. Mining’s Glory Days. Bisbee, Arizona. A Miner’s life
The Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum
44. Highest City in America. Leadville, Colorado
Much to do
Old mine sites
The Matchless mine
The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
45. State Railroad Museum. Sacramento, California
Old Sacramento
46. National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium. Dubuque, Iowa
SECTION NINE: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. 47. Civil Rights Institute. Birmingham, Alabama
48. Kelly Ingram Park. Birmingham, Alabama
49. Rosa Parks Library and Museum. Montgomery, Alabama
50. Little Rock Nine: A Lesson in Human Spirit. Little Rock, Arkansas
Afterword. A Few Words on How We Travel
Appendix A: Living History Museums by State
