Traditionally, such history has been collected by small local historical societies or individual historians and published only in local history forms, sometimes punctuated by annual festive observances.
Local history tends to remain local, even though it contain lessons for all who encounter it.
Sometimes, with a great deal of effort, such small communities manage to open a local history museum, manned by volunteers, usually operating on a shoestring budget, and would-be visitors are all too acquainted with the problem of such places being open, and staffed whenever the public wants to look in. Whether these visitors are casual travellers, or serious researchers. Such museums are partical solutions to spreading local history, but only among local visitors. Larger regional, thematic, state or national museums operate at a scale, often with appropriated funds or large endowments that permit them to be available year round, publish nationally, and gain recognition. But no state, or national museum can do justice to all the distinctive, local 'histories' that make up this richly diverse land within a state.