- Accokeek National Colonial Farm
- The farm is devoted giving the public an appreciation for the life of the typical, middle-class colonial tobacco farmer. The staff dress in historic clothing and demonstrate tools and implements common to the period.
Bryan Point Road Accokeek, MD 20607
``Phone: 301.283.2113
Open Tuesday through Sunday 10am to 4:30pm
- 644 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- American Dime Museum
- The American Dime Museum (ADM) is the world's only exhibition, research, and performance space dedicated exclusively to variety and novelty entertainment, perhaps the oldest form of entertainment and one identified as the country's most treasured forms of Americana.
- 766 clicks since 24-Oct-2001
- Babe Ruth Museum
- The Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum is an independent, not-for-profit educational institution dedicated to perpetuating the historic legacy of Babe Ruth, the Baltimore Orioles, regional baseball and related themes by preserving, exhibiting, interpreting and augmenting its collection for a diverse audience. `````` Open Daily 10am to 5pm`` (until 7pm if Orioles are`` playing at home). ``The rowhome where he was born now serves`` as a museum exploring his baseball career.`` Orioles memorabilia and exhibits are also`` present. Admission range $2-5.
- 634 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Baltimore Maritime Museum
- Pier 3, Inner Harbor Pratt Street Baltimore, MD ``Phone: 410.396.3453 Open Monday through Friday 11am to 5pm. Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm. Get the feel of this town built on sea-faring adventurers by visiting three ships in the Inner Harbor: The Coast Guard Cutter Taney (the only boat still afloat that was present at Pearl Harbor), the WWII submarine Torsk (assigned to the Pacific theatre, it was the last boat in WWII to sink an enemy vessel) and the Lightship Chesapeake (it provided help in safe passage for boats coming through the Bay). Admission range $2 to 4.50.
- 708 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Baltimore Museum of Industry
- Tracing the history of industry in Baltimore, the museum has on display a garment workshop, blacksmith shop, print shop and equipment invented and produced in Baltimore. Admission ranges $2.50 to 3.50. Children`` under six free.
1415 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD
Phone: 410.727.4808
Memorial Day through Labor Day: Open Tuesday through`` Friday noon to 5pm.`` Saturday 10am to 5pm. Sunday noon to 5pm. Labor Day through Memorial Day: Open Wednesday 7pm to 9pm. Thursday and Friday noon to 5pm. Saturday 10am to 5pm. Sunday noon to 5pm.
- 644 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Baltimre & Ohio Railroad Museum
- The B&O Railroad Museum is located at the historic site of the``B&O Railroad's Mt. Clare Shops. Mount Clare is considered to be the birthplace``of American railroading.
- 688 clicks since 26-Oct-2000
- Carroll County Farm Museum
- 500 S. Center Street``Westminster, MD ``Phone: 410.876.2667 ``Open Tuesday through``Friday 10am to 4pm.``Saturday and Sunday noon to 5pm.``This museum features a real working blacksmith and tinsmith, livery, smokehouse,``barns and exhibits on horse and buggys,``antique farm equipment, quilting, 19th century rural American life as well as hosting multiple festivals throughout the year.
- 658 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- City Museum of D.C.
- The City Museum of Washington, D.C. is the only museum in the District dedicated to telling the history of the city. Located in the renovated Carnegie Library in Washington's Mt. Vernon Square neighborhood, the museum offers exhibits, a public library and a multi-media show.
- 2196 clicks since 6-Mar-2003
- Clara Barton National Historic Site
- 5801 Oxford Road`` Glen Echo, MD 20812 `` Phone: 301.492.6245 ```` Open daily 10am - 5pm.`` House shown by guided`` tour only begun hourly on`` the hour. First tour at 10:00`` AM, last tour at 4:00 PM.`` Groups of ten or more need`` reservations. ``Clara Barton founded the American Red`` Cross which she headquartered at her house in`` Glen Echo. From her home, which also served`` as a warehouse for relief supplies, she`` organized and directed disaster relief efforts`` for victims of both natural disasters and wars.
- 549 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- College Park Airport Museum
- Opened in l998, the College Park Aviation Museum is a 27,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility located on the grounds of College Park Airport, the world's oldest continuously operating airport. Visitors are greeted in the first gallery by an animatronic Wilbur Wright. The gallery is a one-eighth scale replica of the hangar the Wright brothers built to house their first military aeroplane. It was here in 1909 that Wilbur gave instruction to the first military officers to fly a government aeroplane. For more information, call Bob Kovalchik, Tour Coordinator, at 800-767-7602 or 301-474-4240 or call the museum at 301-864-6029.
1985 Corporal Frank Scott Drive, College Park, MD 20740
- 476 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Daughters of the American Revolution Museum
- 1776 D Street NW`` Washington, DC`` Phone: 202.879.3241```` Open Monday through`` Friday 8:30am to 4 pm`` Sunday 1pm to 5pm.`` Closed Saturdays, national`` holidays, and during the`` DAR's annual meeting in`` April ``Daughters of the American Revolution`` Museum holds both decorative and fine arts`` collections. All works were made or used in`` America between 1700 and 1850.
- 819 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- DEA Museum
- a museum relating the history of drugs and drug enforcement in the United States
- 678 clicks since 22-Sep-2000
- Dumbarton Oaks
- 1703 32nd Street, N.W. Washington, DC ``Phone 202.339.6410``Open Tuesday through Sunday 2-5 pm, Closed for National Holidays. Garden open April-October 2-6pm, $4.00 admission; children/seniors $3.00 admission.``Garden hours for November-March: 2-5 pm, free admission. Closed during inclement weather and national holidays. ``The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection is housed in a nineteenth-century hourse in Georgetown.
- 713 clicks since 26-Jul-2000
- Ford's Theatre and Lincoln Museum
- 517 10th St NW`` Washington DC `` Phone: 202.426.6924 ```` Open Daily 9am to 5pm`` excerpt during rehersals and`` performances. Call ahead. ``The site of the infamous assassination on`` President Lincoln, the theatre has recently`` re-opened for performances again. However,`` the government has left the appearances inside`` unchanged from the 1860's. Slip back in time`` and remember an event that forever shaped`` America.
- 1920 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Fort Ward Museum
- Civil War museum with exhibitions, lecture series, special events. Programs for schoolchildren and adults.
- 474 clicks since 23-Mar-2001
- Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site
- Fort Ward is the best preserved of the system of forts and batteries built to protect Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Visitors can view the remains of the earthen fort, the restored Northwest Bastion, the reconstructed Officers' Hut, and Museum exhibitions.
Directions:``Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site is located in Alexandria, Virginia, just east of Interstate 395. Take the Seminary Road east exit and follow the signs to Fort Ward.
``Hours: Closed Monday. Tuesday - Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday, noon - 5 p.m. No admission charge.``4301 W. Braddock Road
``Alexandria, VA
``Phone: 703.838.4848
- 724 clicks since 3-May-1999
- Frederick Douglass National Historical Site
- 1411 W St. SE`` Washington DC 20020 `` Phone: 410.727.1539 ```` Open daily 9am to 5pm in the`` summer. 9am to 4pm in the`` fall and winter.``Visit the 1880's home of Frederick Douglass,`` and learn of his stuggle to abolish slavery and`` to establish civil and equal rights for all. Tours,`` exhibits and films aid in this journey.`` Admission for adults is $3, senior citizens are`` $1.50, and children under 6 are free.
- 818 clicks since 16-Jul-1998
- Frontier Culture Museum
- The Frontier Culture Museum (a.k.a. Museum of American Frontier Culture) is a unique museum which offers 17th, 18th and 19th century European and American history as an experience, featuring appropriate furnishings, crops, animals, foods, and a knowledgeable staff of costumed interpreters that help create a living illustration of life in Europe before immigration to America and the culture they built on one of America's first frontiers. Three authentic farms have been brought over from Europe to share the story of how our ancestors lived before they came to America, they include: German farm, c. 1700-1750; Ulster (Scotch Irish) farm, c.1700-1830; English yeoman farm, c.1675-1700. The American Frontier Culture farm comes from the Valley and shares daily life c.1840-1860. An 18th century forge from Northern Ireland--the museums first trades building opened in 1995 and costumed blacksmiths demonstrate regularly.
- 461 clicks since 14-Jul-2002
- Gadsby's Tavern
- Gadsby’s Tavern consists of two buildings, the 1770`` tavern and the 1792 City Hotel. The buildings are`` named for Englishman John Gadsby who operated`` them from 1796 to 1808. Mr. Gadsby’s establishment was a center of political,`` business, and social life in early Alexandria.
``134 North Royal Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
``Tel : 703-838-4242, fax 703-838-4270
- 462 clicks since 24-Aug-2000
- Gunston Hall Plantation
- Built in 1755, Gunston Hall was the plantation home of George Mason (1725-1792). He was the Father of the Bill of Rights. His life and times are vividly evoked by his commodious house and gardens overlooking the Potomac River. A museum shop specializes in gifts and books inspired by 18th-century Virginia including handblown glass, jewelry, creamware, preserves, teas, gardening things, and needlework. Plantation hours are 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM daily.
- 320 clicks since 16-Jul-2000
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