Name - Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center

City/State - Mountain City, GA

County - RABUN

Region - North Georgia Mountains

Description - The Foxfire Museum & Heritage Ctr. serves as a functional museum of Southern Appalachia with self-guided tours for visitors, featuring artifact displays in & around 22 log cabins. The Gift Shop offers handmade items, The Foxfire Book series, & a large selection of other books. Gift Shop admission is free; self-guided tours are $6.00 each; children 10 & under are free. Admission includes one souvenir tour booklet per family/group. Mon-Sat, 8:30 to 4:30. Closed Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. 706-746-5828

Name - The Butler Museum

City/State - Butler, TN

County - JOHNSON

Region - East Tennessee

Description - The award winning Butler Museum tells the story of “the town that wouldn’t drown”. Originally Butler was a thriving community which settlers, including Daniel Boone, settled back in the late 1700’s along the waters of the Watauga River. Growing over the years, the town eventually had a hotel, a lumber yard, a railroad, bus station, a university/college, and a busy town nestled between the mountains and the Watauga River. But over time, the lumber industry petered out and in the late 1930’s under Roosevelt’s rural electrification program, the Tennessee Valley Authority it was felt that by damming the Watauga River, the water would generate a great deal of electric power for the towns and communities all along the Tennessee river valley.

Name - Beverly Heritage Center Local and Regional History Museum

City/State - Beverly, WV

County - RANDOLPH

Region - Potomac Highlands West Virginia

Description - The Beverly Heritage Center is the place to discover the history of the region and its contribution to the First Campaign of the Civil War.

Name - Transylvania Heritage Coalition, Inc.

City/State - Brevard, NC

County - TRANSYLVANIA

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - Transylvania Heritage Museum, in historic house at 189 W. Main St, Brevard, open Wed.-Sat. 10am-5pm. Tour the Museum, browse the gift shop & sit a spell! Donations suggested.

Name - The Museum and White House of the Confederacy

City/State - Richmond, VA

County - CITY OF RICHMOND

Region - Central Virginia

Description - Come to the Museum of the Confederacy and see artifacts from battles that occurred in and around the Blue Ridge Mountains such as "Stonewall" Jackson's Valley Campaign, and the Battles of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Knoxville.

Name - Battleship NORTH CAROLINA

City/State - Wilmington, NC

County - NEW HANOVER

Region - Costal North Carolina

Description - Standing with quiet dignity and majesty across the river from downtown Wilmington, the Battleship NORTH CAROLINA beckons visitors to walk her decks and envision daily life that her crew faced in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.

Name - Settlers Museum of Southwest VA

City/State - Atkins, VA

County - SMYTH

Region - Blue Ridge Highlands - Southwest Virginia

Description - The museum exists to tell the story of the people who settled the mountainous southwest corner of Virginia and to help explain how the area's unique culture developed. See our restored 1890s era one room school house and farm with original farmhouse and nine outbuildings.

Name - Asheville Area Arts Council

City/State - Asheville, NC

County - BUNCOMBE

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - Promoting the arts of WNC, the Asheville Area Arts Council's 1,400 square ft. Front Gallery represents emerging and established local artists. Some of the Arts Council's grants programs include Regional Artist Project Grants, Grassroots Arts Grants, and the RBC Centura AIE Initiative Grants.

Name - The Hollow History Center

City/State - Ararat, VA

County - PATRICK

Region - Blue Ridge Highlands - Southwest Virginia

Description - Open on weekends with summer programs, The Hollow History Center preserves the history of the western part of Patrick County Virginia

Name - TOY MUSEUM AT NATURAL BRIDGE

City/State - Natural Bridge, VA

County - ROCKBRIDGE

Region - Shenandoah Valley

Description - Museum haslargest collection of American childhood memorabilia on display in the world. 45,000+ dolls & toys dating from 1740 to 2000. Also home to the world's largest permanently installed multi-gauge model railroad layout. Toy/Gift shop with unusual toys to educate and amuse.

Name - friends of shannondale springs(FOSS)

City/State - Harpers Ferry, WV

County - JEFFERSON

Region - Eastern Panhandle West Virginia

Description - Enjoy a virtual tour of the once world renown "Resort of Presidents", Shannondale Springs. The Greenbier of its time, it reigned as the premier spa in the Shenandoah Valley from 1819 till it was destroyed by fire in 1858.

Name - The Toy Museum at Natural Bridge

City/State - Natural Bridge, VA

County - ROCKBRIDGE

Region - Shenandoah Valley

Description - Largest collections of childhood artifacts dating from 1740 on display in the world. World's largest permanently installed multi-guage model railroad.

Name - Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site

City/State - Asheville, NC

County - BUNCOMBE

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - The boyhood home of North Carolina author Thomas Wolfe, the historic Old Kentucky Home boarding house was made famous as the setting of Wolfe's 1929 novel "Look Homeward, Angel." Today the home stands as both a literary landmark and a reminder of a bygone era in American life.

Name - Walnut Grove Plantation

City/State - Roebuck, SC

County - SPARTANBURG

Region - Upcountry South Carolina

Description - Walnut Grove Plantation is a 1765 backcountry home with several outbuildings, nature trails and a family cemetery. The first weekend of October, the site hosts FestiFall, a colonial living history festival with the raid of "Bloody Bill" Cunningham. Take I-26 to Exit 28 in SC.

Name - Old Salem

City/State - Winston-Salem, NC

County - FORSYTH

Region - North Carolina Piedmont

Description - Old Salem includes the historic 1766 town of Salem, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, the Toy Museum, and the Children’s Musuem. For more information, call 1-888-653-7253 or visit www.oldsalem.org.

Name - Scottish Tartans Museum

City/State - Franklin, NC

County - MACON

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - The Scottish Tartans Museum is a non-profit heritage center focused on the tradition of Highland Dress. Exhibits also on the Scottish migration to western NC. Scottish gift shop. On line ordering.

Name - Wheels Through Time Museum

City/State - Maggie Valley, NC

County - HAYWOOD

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - Come and visit the Museum That Runs with over 200 rare American vintage motorcycles most of which are still operated regularly. Learn about the history of American transportation and see a rare collection of cars, memorabilia and collectibles.

Name - Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest

City/State - Forest, VA

County - BEDFORD

Region - Central Virginia

Description - Discover Jefferson’s retreat now undergoing award-winning restoration and archaeology. Tours Wed.-Mon., April-Nov. except Thanksgiving, 10-4. Hands-on history in summer, 11-2. Independence Day celebration. (434) 525-1806, www.poplarforest.org.

Name - Smith-McDowell House Museum

City/State - Asheville, NC

County - BUNCOMBE

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - Discover Asheville, NC’s first mansion, built around 1840 as the center of a mountain plantation. Now restored with period rooms spanning 1840 to 1900, and changing history exhibits. Located less than 2 miles from Biltmore Estate.

Name - Red Hill - Patrick Henry National Memorial

City/State - Charlotte, VA

County - CAMPBELL

Region - Central Virginia

Description - RED HILL. Patrick Henry, “Voice of the Revolution” and Virginia’s first governor, lived at Red Hill. Self-guided walking tour includes Henry’s grave, law office, reconstructed home and dependencies. Visitor center, museum, gift shop.

Name - Colburn Earth Science Museum

City/State - Asheville, NC

County - BUNCOMBE

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - See the fantastic shapes and colors of minerals from around the world and discover the vast hidden treasures that lie beneath North Carolina’s soil. At the Colburn Earth Science Museum, discover how Earth Science is a part of your everyday life.

Name - William King Regional Arts Center

City/State - Abingdon, VA

County - WASHINGTON

Region - Blue Ridge Highlands - Southwest Virginia

Description - The Arts Center features museum-standard galleries, classes in the visual & performing arts, & school programs on-site & directly in the schools, as well as resident artist studios, an outdoor sculpture garden, museum store & historic house museum.

Name - Blue Ridge Institute & Museum

City/State - Ferrum, VA

County - FRANKLIN

Region - Blue Ridge Highlands - Southwest Virginia

Description - Located at Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA, this institute is the official Blue Ridge Folklore Center of the state of Virginia.

Name - Museum of Culpeper History

City/State - Culpeper, VA

County - CULPEPER

Region - Central Virginia

Description - We have a wonderful collection of artifacts, photos, & memorabilia from Culpeper Counties historic past. Hours of Operation Monday thru Saturday 11AM - 5PM.

Name - Frontier Culture Museum

City/State - Staunton, VA

County - STAUNTON CITY

Region - Shenandoah Valley

Description - The 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.

Name - Historic Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park

City/State - Tazewell, VA

County - TAZEWELL

Region - Blue Ridge Highlands - Southwest Virginia

Description - Located in Tazewell, Virginia.A wonderful site with lots of information about calendar of events, demonstrations and more at the museum.

Name - Historic Long Branch

City/State - Millwood, VA

County - CLARKE

Region - Shenandoah Valley

Description - Exquisitely restored 1811 Greek Revival Mansion situated on a 400 acre working horse farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Opulent collection of period furnishings and beautiful gardens

Name - The Vance Museum

City/State - Weaverville, NC

County - BUNCOMBE

Region - Western North Carolina

Description - Located in Weaverville, NC. Features the birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance. The five-room log house-- reconstructed around original chimneys--and its outbuildings are furnished to interpret the period from 1795 to 1840. Also included is the history of Vance's famous mountain family.