
PLACES TO VISIT
HISTORY PARKS
Granger Village is a fictional living-history museum, but there are real ones to visit all over the country. Some of them have museum guides who stay in character, pretending to be from that time, and some have guides dressed in costume but who speak as modern people. Is there one close to you?
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Alaska: Alaska Native Heritage Center
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Florida: Mission San Luis
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Georgia: Historic Westville
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Illinois: Naper Settlement
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Illinois: Kline Creek Farm
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Indiana: Conner Prairie
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Indiana: Amish Acres
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Iowa: Living History Farms
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Kentucky: Mountain Home Place
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Maryland: Carroll County Farm Museum
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Maryland: Oxen Cove Park
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Massachusetts: Old Sturbridge Village
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Massachusetts: Pioneer Village
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Massachusetts: Plimoth Plantation
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Michigan: Greenfield Village
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Minnesota: The Landing/Minnesota River Heritage Park
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Nebraska: Railroad Town/Stuhr Museum
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New Hampshire: Strawberry Banke Museum
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New Jersey: Historic Cold Spring Village
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New Mexico: El Rancho de las Golondrinas
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New York: Genesee Country Village & Museum
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New York: Old Bethpage Village Restoration
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Ohio: Hale Farm & Museum
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Ohio: Heritage Village Museum
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Ohio: Sauder Village
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Pennsylvania: Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation
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Rhode Island: Coggeshall Farm Museum
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Tennessee: The Museum of Appalachia
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Virginia: Claude Moore Colonial Farm
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Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg
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Virginia: Frontier Culture Museum
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Wisconsin: Old World Wisconsin
WATER-POWERED SAWMILLS
Some of these are the original sawmills from the 1800s which have been refurbished and put in working order again. Others are reconstructions of old sawmills that don’t exist anymore.
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Connecticut: Ledyard Up-Down Sawmill
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Indiana: Hamer's Mill in Spring Mill State Park.
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Michigan: Mill Creek Discovery Park in Mackinac Island State Park.
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Massachussetts: Old Sturbridge Village
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New Hampshire: Taylor Sawmill
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New Hampshire: Sanborn Mills Farm
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New York: Hurd and Briggs Sawmill.
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Ohio: Kirtland Sawmill
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Wisconsin: Herrling Sawmill.