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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Bird Island Light
Falmouth
Buzzards Bay Entrance Light
Falmouth
Cleveland Ledge Light
Falmouth
Highfield Hall & Gardens
Falmouth
Katherine Lee Bates Birthplace Museum
Falmouth
Wings Neck Light
Falmouth
Highfield Hall & Gardens
Falmouth
Highfield Hall & Gardens is a dynamic and unique museum providing opportunities for education, entertainment and inspiration. The natural, historic,... more
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Bird Island Light
Sippican Harbor
Falmouth
508-748-0550 - B
Buzzards Bay Entrance Light
Buzzards Bay Channel
Falmouth
508-457-3325 - C
Cleveland Ledge Light
Cleveland Ledge Channel
Falmouth
508-457-3325 - D
Highfield Hall & Gardens
56 Highfield Dr
Falmouth
508-495-1878 - E
Katherine Lee Bates Birthplace Museum
16 Main St.
Falmouth
555-555-5555 - F
Wings Neck Light
Buzzards Bay
Falmouth
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Highfield Hall & Gardens
56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth Ma 02540
Falmouth
508-495-1878
Epic History: it's all here
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