RVFulltimingLove: American Freedom Museum

We stayed in Tyler Tx for 2 months and explored the surrounding area. An amazing museum is located just a few miles from the campground we stayed at called The American Freedom Museum. If you are ever in this area this is a must see.

Come explore the Museum's 15,000 square feet of galleries containing an amazing collection of artefacts and documents from the breadth of our nation’s history. Be transported back in time as you journey from the battlefields of the American Revolution all the way to the sands of Iraq.

You’ll see a musket used by an American minuteman at the Battle of Lexington, a cannon used by General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, the sword carried by Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, the bloody uniform of a Spanish-American War bugler, World War I soldiers in their trench on the Western Front, a 1943 Willys jeep, a glider cockpit, a C-47 paratrooper plane that you can actually board, the Nazi flag captured by American troops who liberated Dachau, a fully outfitted Vietnam-era Huey helicopter, and much, much more. Learn about each event from informative panels, maps, artifacts, videos, and photographs throughout the exhibits.

A special gallery in the Museum features a document signed by every President of the United States from George Washington to Barack Obama. Included are key information and quotations from each. Items of particular interest include a lock of George Washington’s hair, an original poem written by John Quincy Adams, a Senate tally sheet

.from Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial, a letter from Theodore Roosevelt offering to revive the Rough Riders for service in World War I, and a letter of resignation signed by Richard Nixon. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt, one can hear an audio clip of a selected President.

http://www.americanfreedommuseum.org/