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Historical society

Generally, a historical society focuses on a specific geographical area, such as a county or town or subject, such as aviation or rail.


George Mercer Brooke, Jr.

Colonel George Mercer Brooke Jr. was also President of the Stonewall Jackson (Jackson had been an educator at VMI) Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, member and officer of the Rockbridge County, Virginia Historical Society, and chairman of the VMI Sesquicentennial Committee.

W. Michael Mathes

Mathes spearheaded fundraising efforts for CAREM, a non-profit historical society based in Tecate, Baja California, which promotes the history of Baja California.


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Allen County Jail

During this process, many local citizens expressed a desire to see the old jail preserved; the 1957 Kansas Legislature passed a law to permit the county to convey to the Allen County Historical Society, which has since converted it into a museum.

Amory-Ticknor House

Raymond, Marcius D. Sketch of Rev. Blackleach Burritt and related Stratford families : a paper read before the Fairfield County Historical Society, at Bridgeport, Conn., Friday evening, Feb. 19, 1892.

Applefest

The festival donates $5,000 per year on average to groups such as Ambulance Corps, local libraries, village parks, the Food Shelf, Camp Good Days and Special Times, the Historical Society, Braddock Bay Raptor Research, and other community center projects.

Bessemer Historical Society

The Bessemer Historical Society takes its name from the community of Bessemer, Colorado, site of the Colorado Coal and Iron Bessemer Works which was named after the Bessemer process for making steel invented by Henry Bessemer.

Center Strafford, New Hampshire

The former Austin Cate Academy, now owned by the New Hampshire National Guard, plus the town offices, post office, and Austin Hall (Strafford Historical Society) are all in Center Strafford.

Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt

In her later years, Clara worked a lot in her community, including working as a YMCA secretary and also working actively in her church and historical society.

Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society

The Cotton Belt Rail Historical Society, Inc. (CBRHS) is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of the history of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (SSW), commonly referred to as the "Cotton Belt".

David Carnivale

The Loring McMillen Award for Restoration 2005 given by The Staten Island Historical Society.

Earle E. Williams

He was active in a variety of social and civic organizations including the Rotary Club, the West Side Pioneers (now the West Side Pioneer Association), San Joaquin Historical Society and the Native Sons of the Golden West.

Elizabeth A. Johnson

Johnson's claim was supported by Elliott Coues, who had edited Pike's journal; with his endorsement, it was accepted by the Kansas State Historical Society.

Frisco 1352

After its removal from Swope Park, Smoky Hill Railway and Historical Society kept the 1352 in an industrial park in Riverside, Missouri, where it suffered flooding on at least one occasion.

Greg Rhodes

A native of Richmond, Indiana, Rhodes worked for the Cincinnati Historical Society from 1987 to 1992, helped plan the creation of the new history museum at the Museum Center, served as president of the board of Historic Southwest Ohio, and chaired the local chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).

H. Ogden Wintermute

After Wintermute's death, these became the property of the Knox County Historical Society in Ohio.

Hooker Oak

Many of these were given to various institutions, which included the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, the Butte County Historical Society, Bidwell Mansion, Sacramento Valley Museum, Butte College, California State University, Chico, and the University of California at Berkeley.

James Horgan

James J. Horgan, PhD was a history professor at St. Leo College in San Antonio, Florida for 35 years, a historical society president, a Florida Historical Society board member, a prolific author and an NAACP chapter founder.

Jean René Allard

He worked as a lawyer, served as leader of the Union Nationale Metisse, and was a member of the Louis Riel Society and the St. Boniface Historical Society.

Jerry D. Thompson

He has received numerous awards in recognition of his scholarship, including the Minnie Stevens Piper Fellowship; T.R. Fehrenback Award, by the Texas Historical Commission; Kate Broocks Bates Award, by the Texas State Historical Association; Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award, by the Historical Society of New Mexico; and Barry Goldwater Award, by the Arizona Historical Society.

Jim Argue

He serves on the boards of the Arkansas Travelers Baseball Club and the Arkansas Historical Society.

Joseph Maiden

He was an active office-bearer in the Royal and Linnean societies of New South Wales, the (Royal) Australian Historical Society, the Wattle Day League, the Horticultural Society and Horticultural Association, the Field Naturalists’ Society, the Town Planning Association of New South Wales, and the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.

Justin Winsor

His grandfather's home, the Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House, is now the headquarters of the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society.

Karen T. Taylor

In early 2012, members of the Dubuque County Historical Society and curators at the National Mississippi River Museum asked Taylor to create a 2D facial reconstruction based on the skull of Julien Dubuque, founder of Dubuque, Iowa.

Lawton Nuss

He is a member of the Board of Editors for the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, the Advisory Board for the Topeka-Shawnee County Youth Court, the United States Supreme Court Historical Society, the Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University School of Law, the American Judges Association, and the Kansas Bar Association.

Liah Greenfeld

In 2002, she received the Kagan Prize of the Historical Society for the best book in European History (for The Spirit of Capitalism) and in 2004 was chosen to deliver the Gellner lecture at the London School of Economics.

Manhanset Chapel

In 1986, the Osofsky family donated the chapel to the Shelter Island Historical Society, which restored it to the 1924 period of its significance when it was used by the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.

Marlboro, Vermont

Richard Lewontin, biologist and treasurer of the Marlboro Historical Society

Mennonite Historical Library

Young professors Harold S. Bender, Ernst Correll and Guy Hershberger were among those active in promoting the concurrent resurrection of the college's Mennonite Historical Society.

Michael Bodkin

James Joyce's 'The Dead' and its Galway Connections, Peadar O'Dowd, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Volume 51, 1999, pp.

Mull Historical and Archaeological Society

Mull Historical & Archaeological Society were originally called simply Mull Historical Society but changed their name to underline the importance of archaeology in their work and partly to avoid confusion with Colin MacIntyre's pop creation.

National Prohibition Foundation

The Foundation (not to be confused with the American Prohibition Foundation) is part of the organizational structure of the Prohibition party, other components of which are the Prohibition National Committee, the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society, the Prohibitionists Caucus, the Action!, and all state and local affiliates.

New Hampshire Historical Society

The New Hampshire Historical Society is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

Northern Alberta

Other tourist attractions in Northern Alberta include the Fort McMurray Historical Society-Heritage Park, Historic Dunvegan, Kimiwan Birdwalk and Interpretive Centre, Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory in the Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park, Muskoseepi Park, and the Oil Sands Discovery Centre.

Osceola and St. Croix Valley Railway

It is operated by the Osceola Historical Society and the Minnesota Transportation Museum on former Soo Line and Wisconsin Central trackage, now owned by Canadian National Railway.

Parliamentary representation from Cornwall

Edwin Jaggard Cornwall politics in the age of reform 1790–1855, Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, (1999), ISBN 0-86193-243-9

Pere Marquette 1225

In August 1991, 1225 along with NKP 765 pulled a 31 car excursion train during the National Railway Historical Society's annual convention in Huntington, West Virginia.

Plains Historical Society

The Plains Historical Society, PHS, is located at 816 East 3rd Street Kimball, Nebraska.

Powysland Club

The Powysland Club is a historical society for the county of Montgomeryshire, Wales.

QHS

Quincy Historical Society, the historical society of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States

Ralph J. Menconi

Among his more than 900 works, Menconi created medals for the National Book Award, New York University Law School, Kenyon College, Hamilton College, the Capitol Historical Society in Washington, and the New York Historical Society.

Russ Hodge

In August 2003, both Hodge and his mother were honoured with the Sullivan County Historical Society "History Maker" award.

Scheideck, California

The Ridge Route Communities Museum and Historical Society, for example, noted that "Judge" Scheideck ran egg hunts on both Easter Sunday and Halloween, which was Scheideck's birthday, and the custom was still being observed in 2013.

St. Thomas's Church, Rateče

It was discovered in 1880 at Klagenfurt in Carinthia, where it is kept in the archives of the Carinthian Historical Society.

Stubbs Society

The Stubbs Society was the oldest historical society in the University of Oxford, named in honour of the Victorian historian, William Stubbs.

Theatre Historical Society of America

The Theatre Historical Society was founded in 1969 by writer and theatre historian Ben M. Hall, author of the first book celebrating America's movie palaces, The Best Remaining Seats.

United States Capitol Historical Society

The United States Capitol Historical Society is an organization chartered by the United States Congress, beginning in 1962, to educate the public on the heritage and history of the United States Capitol, as well as its institutions and those individuals who have served them over time.

Wanuskewin Heritage Park

Within its 240 hectares (about 600 acres) there are 19 sites that represent the active and historical society of Northern Plains Peoples composed of Cree, Assiniboine, Saulteaux, Atsina, Dakota, and Blackfoot.

William Alexander Linn

He is a member of the National Geographic Society, the New Jersey Historical Society, Bergen County Historical Society, and trustee of the Johnson Public Library of Hackensack.

Woodlawn Vase

The perpetual trophy is now on display at The Baltimore Museum of Art under the direction of The Maryland Historical Society and is brought to Pimlico Race Course under guard by Maryland National Guard and Air National Airman in dress uniform for the annual running of the Preakness.

Yerxa

Donald A. Yerxa, author co-director of The Historical Society (THS) at Boston University (BU)