| We are a not-for-profit corporation, organized in 1997, for the conservation of historical resources that benefit the general public. Our purpose is to protect historically significant structures, sites, and items of historical interest, and also protection of environmentally sensitive and archaeologically important properties. Our goal is to educate the public about Florida's history and how it relates to the development of our nation. |
| Reflections of Manatee |
| Education ● Protection ● Preservation ● Conservation ● History |
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| EXHIBITS NEEDED - Help through Donations! Do you like to shop for antiques? Would you be willing to donate items you find? For our 1925 house we will need all types of kitchen gadgets, dishes, we are looking for a working 1925 stove and refrigerator, player piano, and 1925 craftsman/mission style furniture. Six panel horizontal wooden doors of varies sizes. *New replica 1925 ceiling fans and lighting. For our 1860 Living History Museum we are looking for "primitive" antiques representing the civil war era time frame. Grand furniture the Curry family owned would have included pre-victorian. We are looking for such items as an oak desk, rocker, armorers, 1860 dining table, table clock of that era, six panel wooden doors, two over two sash wooden windows, and antique lighting fixtures. Donations are tax deductible! |
| Want to Volunteer in Your Community? Help Restore our Museum Houses! Volunteer duties include: painting, scraping, removing nails, raking or cleaning. Off-site volunteering is needed in the areas of constructing shelves, mission type furniture, wooden shutters, or sewing window coverings. Contact Trudy Williams at 941-746-2035 for information These houses will become museums open to the general public when complete. |
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| Please call us by telephone anytime. 941-746-2035 |