Unearthing Florida: Salt Works

During the Civil War, salt production in Florida was vital to keeping the Confederacy supplied with long-lasting sources of perishable food, such as meat and fish.

The Union strategy of cutting off supplies from the north and blockading southern ports ...

Unearthing Florida: Camp Walton

At the start of the Civil War, Confederate Florida looked to local militias to begin the difficult task of raising an army.

Most militias were made up of men from different social orders in the community- farmers, bricklayers, teachers, fisherman, lawyers ...

Jewish Museum Milwaukee

The Jewish Museum Milwaukee is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of the Jewish people in southeastern Wisconsin and celebrating the continuum of Jewish heritage and culture.

The history of American Jews is rooted in thousands of years of ...

Milwaukee County Historic Society

The Milwaukee County Historical Society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve and make available materials relating to the history of the Milwaukee community.

Through a broad range of activities, the Historical Society seeks to recognize and preserve our local ...

Charles Allis Art Museum

Designed by prominent Milwaukee architect Alexander Eschweiler for Charles Allis, the first president of Allis Chalmers, and his wife Sarah in 1911, this unique Tudor-style mansion and art collection was built with the sole purpose of bequeathing it to the ...

Milwaukee Public Museum

Milwaukee Public Museum is the intersection of human history and natural science. The museum strives to educate, explore, discover and preserve the world and its people.

We have the tools with which to ask and answer questions: Why do caterpillars ...

Abbott Row

Abbot Row is significant as an excellent preserved example of a Queen Anne Style row house block in Milwaukee. Among the other row house blocks that remain in Milwaukee, only a few can compare with Abbot Row in the excellence ...

National Historic Landmark - Ludlow Tent Colony Site

The Ludlow Tent Colony Site is significant in the history of industry for its association with a pivotal event in American history, a battle between striking coal miners and the National Guard that culminated in the destruction of the tent ...

National Historic Landmark - Lowry Ruin

A pueblo (c. 1060 AD) of 50 rooms, unusual in that it has a great kiva, a large ceremonial structure more commonly found in Arizona and New Mexico.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, a program of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Lindenmeier Site

The only extensive Folsom campsite yet known, providing a picture of the life of the Early Hunters (9000-3000 BC). The site is not open to the public, but information is available at www.ci.fort-collins.co.us.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic ...