School House Roseville Near Me

4worldlovers: The Bernhard Museum is open Tuesday-Friday, 1:00-4:00pm, and weekends 11:00am-4:00pm. Built in 1851 as the Traveler’s Rest Hotel, the Bernhard House has been welcoming visitors for over 150 years. Filled with artifacts and furnishings from a bygone era, the Bernhard House transports visitors to a simpler time. The Bernhard Museum also serves as home to the third grade Living History Program.

The DeWitt History Museum is open on Wednesdays from 12:00pm – 4:00pm. This museum interprets the World War II-era DeWitt General Army Hospital (1943-1945) and subsequent use of the complex as the DeWitt State Hospital (1946-1972). The museum is the site’s original farm cottage where photographs and historic objects tell the story of the growth and development of the complex and why this former military hospital-turned-psychiatric treatment hospital, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Forest Hill Divide Museum is open weekends, from 12:00pm – 4:00pm, from Memorial Day through Labor Day weekends. This museum interprets the history of the town of Foresthill and the surrounding area known as the Foresthill Divide. This gold rush-era community sits at a junction of key transportation routes from Auburn and Yankee Jims and became an important center of trade and travel for the surrounding populations. Displays feature the history of local Native Americans, mining, geology, timber, and 19th-century home life in this mountain community.

The Fruitvale Schoolhouse Museum is open the second Sunday of each month from 12:00pm-4:00pm. The museum is also available for rentals outside of monthly museum hours. This museum, on Fruitvale Road in Lincoln, is a restored 19th-century schoolhouse. Built in 1888, Fruitvale served local students for 57 years before converting to a community hall. Here, artifacts and images recreate the one-room schoolhouse experience. The Fruitvale School also hosts third grade Living History students and community groups.

The Golden Drift Museum is open weekends, from 12:00pm – 4:00pm, from Memorial Day weekend through September. The museum takes its name from the Golden Drift Historical Society, which in turn was named for a gold mining company that existed in Dutch Flat in the early 1900s. The museum sits on the main street of the Dutch Flat Historic District which is listed on the National Register of Historic places. Here, photographs and objects tell the history of this well-preserved gold rush community and surrounding areas, which was once home to a large and active Chinese community during the 19th century and sits along the route of the transcontinental railroad.

The Gold Rush Museum is open Thursday through Sunday from 10:30pm - 4:00pm, It features a mining tunnel, gold rush twitter wall, many hands-on exhibits and an indoor panning stream that is wheelchair accessible.

The Griffith Quarry Museum is open weekends, from 12:00pm - 4:00pm. This museum is housed in the original Penryn Granite Works office, built by Welsh immigrant Griffith Griffith in 1864. The museum serves as an introduction to the Griffith Quarry Park and illustrates the history of the Penryn-Loomis Basin area, the Griffith family, and importance of the Placer County granite industry which has resulted in this site being listed on the National Register of Historic Places.