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 Plantation to see what life was like in the 1600’s, before cell phones and reality TV. Walk the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston, where every step tells a story of the American Revolution. Hear the famous “shot heard round the world” on Lexington Green, where the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. Get goose bumps sitting where giants in the abolitionist movement sat in the brilliantly restored African American Meeting House. Feel the hull of Old Ironsides, otherwise known as the USS Constitution. What did the 1830’s smell like? Apparently awesome, according to the bread they’re baking and the candles they’re dipping over at Old Sturbridge Village, one of the country’s oldest and largest living history museums.
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635 Careswell Street
Marshfield
781-837-5753
4 Town Square
Plymouth
508-830-4075
Po Box 8 / 26 S Main Stree
New Salem
(413) 335-3489
180 Norton St.
Box 147
Weymouth
781-335-4205
1250 Hancock Street
Adams National Historical Park Visitor Center
Quincy
617-770-1175
29 York St.
Nantucket
508-228-9833
105 Alden St.
Po Box 2754
Duxbury
781-934-9092
568 Main Street
Hudson
800-568-8924
35 South Pleasant Street
Amherst
413-345-2945
Ahac, Armory, Fourth Floor
Faneuil Hall
Boston
617 227 1638
219 County Road
Ipswich
978.356.5728
35 Aquinnah Circle (location)
10 Black Brook Rd. (mailing)
Aquinnah,
(508)645-7900
125 Arborway
Boston
617-524-1718
780 Holmes Rd.
Pittsfield
413-442-1793
123 Elm Street
Po Box 421
Millbury
508-865-0855
Baker Island Light
Salem
978-740-0444
5 Water Street
Fall River
800.533.3194
75 Eastern Point Boulevard
Gloucester
978-283-0800
39 South St (route 7)
Pittsfield
413-443-7171
117 Cabot St.
Beverly
978-922-1186
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