Wawarsing Historical Society and Knife Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business The Wawarsing Historical Society and Knife Museum Keeping America's knife-making history alive since 2013. The Hudson Valley in the late 1800s and early 1900s produced 50 to 70 percent of all the knives sold in this country. Those knives came mostly from a small village of a few thousand […]

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Museum of Chinese in America Shows a Little-Known History

Contact us to Add Your Business Chinese have been in America since before the United States was founded, though few in numbers until the 1840s. Like other ethnic groups, they faced prejudice and exclusion, until the civil rights movements of the 1960s began to tear down racial barriers in education and jobs. In 1980, a […]

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JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT, Living History Museum

Contact us to Add Your Business This is a living history museum near the original Jamestown settlement site. You see a new historical museum, then can join a tour to the 3 major areas. You see a reproduction Powhatan Village, then the Fort area, and then 3 replica ships that men sailed to the new […]

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Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery

Contact us to Add Your Business The first museum in America dedicated entirely to slavery opened a few months ago in Wallace, Louisiana. Michelle Miller visits the museum and found a surprising history, not only about the plantation, but her own family. Contact us to Add Your Business

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