You can see, hear, feel, and sometimes even smell the history throughout Massachusetts. Check out the very rock where the Pilgrims landed, and visit Plimoth Patuxet Museums to see what life was like in the 1600s. Or experience life in the 1830s over at Old Sturbridge Village, one of the country’s oldest and largest living history museums. Walk the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston, where every step tells a story of the American Revolution or listen for the famous “shot heard round the world” on Lexington Green, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. Sit where the giants of the abolitionist movement sat in the brilliantly restored African American Meeting House. Feel the hull of Old Ironsides, otherwise known as the USS Constitution.
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Edgartown
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Boston
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Ipswich
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
Waltham
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Chatham
Church of the Presidents, United First Parish Church, Quincy
Quincy
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North Oxford
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Codman Estate Carriage House
Lincoln
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Essex
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Cahoon Museum of American Art
4676 Falmouth Road
Po Box 1853
Cotuit
5084287581 - B
Cambridge Historical Tours
Harvard Square
Cambridge
617-520-4030 - C
Cape Ann Foodie Tours
Har
Gloucester
617-902-8291 - D
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant St
Gloucester
9782830455 - E
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
135 South St.
Hyannis
(508) 775-1723 - F
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main Street/route 6a
Brewster
508-896-3867 - G
Cape Cod Museum Trail
200 Mill Road, Suite 100
Fairhaven
8006427515 - H
Cape Cod National Seashore
Salt Pond Visitor Center
Rt. 6
Eastham
508-255-3421 - I
Cape Kayaking
222 Hemenway Road
Eatham
508 247 7402 - J
Cape Poge Light
Chappaquiddick Island
Edgartown
508-693-7662 - K
Captain Pollard's Flintlock Farm
327 Still River Road, Rte. 110
P.o. Box 152
Still River (in The Town Of Harvard, Ma)
978-456-8253 - L
The Castle at Park Plaza
130 Columbus Ave.
Boston
617-450-0600 - M
Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
290 Argilla Rd.
Ipswich
978.356.4351 - N
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
154 Moody Street
Waltham
781-893-5410 - O
Chatham Light
Coast Guard Station
Chatham
508-945-3830 - P
Church of the Presidents, United First Parish Church, Quincy
1306 Hancock Street
Quincy
617-773-0062 - Q
Clara Barton Birthplace Museum
66 Clara Barton Road
P.o. Box 356
North Oxford
508-987-2056 - R
Cleveland Ledge Light
Cleveland Ledge Channel
Falmouth
508-457-3325 - S
Codman Estate Carriage House
34 Codman Road
Lincoln
617-994-6671 - T
Cogswell's Grant, a Historic New England Property
60 Spring Street
Essex
978-768-3632
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