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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Ahac, Armory, Fourth Floor
Faneuil Hall
Boston
617 227 1638
One Long Wharf
Boston
617-223-8666
306 Congress Street
Boston
617-338-1773
1 Washington Mall
Boston
857-233-5437
130 Columbus Ave.
Boston
617-450-0600
Merchants Row
Boston
617-242-5675
44 School Street, Suite 250
Boston
617-357-8300
200 Atlantic Avenue
Boston
888-920-8687
137 Beacon St.
Boston
6172676338
67 Long Wharf
Boston
617-742-0333
200 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston
617-450-7000
46 Joy Street, Boston
29 York Street, Nantucket
Boston
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55 Mount Vernon Street
Boston
617-227-6993
193 Salem Street
Between Unity And Hull Streets
Boston
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645 Boylston Street
Boston
617-536-1970
310 Washington Street
Boston
617-482-6439
206 Washington Street
Boston
617-720-1713
200 Atlantic Avenue
Boston
888-910-8687
141 Cambridge St.
Boston
617-994-5920
19 North Sq.
Boston
617-523-2338
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