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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1869 one-room schoolhouse as it was in the 1930s; attached museum with school memorabilia, local, fishing industry, whaling and military artifacts.... more
1868 home of a wealthy whaling captain and his family more
Est. in 1838. Grounds open only. more
Salt Pond Visitor Center
Rt. 6
Eastham
508-255-3421
222 Hemenway Road
Eatham
508 247 7402
Ocean View Dr.
Eastham
508-240-2612
Off Rt. 6 (opposite Vistors Center Natl. Seashore)
Box 8
Eastham
Fort Hill Rd.
Eastham
508-255-3421
Ocean View Dr.
Eastham
508-240-2612
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