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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Bewitched In Salem
180 Essex Street
Salem
978-498-4061
100 Art School Rd.
Monterey
413-528-6888
Sippican Harbor
Falmouth
508-748-0550
98 North Main Street
Route 28
Avon
508-587-2884
801 Chockalog Road
Uxbridge
508-278-6110
Borden Light Marina
Fall River
401-253-9585
349 Lincoln Street, #45
Hingham
617-223-8666
One Long Wharf
Boston
617-223-8666
306 Congress Street
Boston
617-338-1773
1 Washington Mall
Boston
857-233-5437
East St. And Quaker Dr.
Petersham
978-840-4446
Town Square
Plymouth
781-716-5531
New Bedford Channel
New Bedford
508-979-1745
Buzzards Bay Channel
Falmouth
508-457-3325
Harvard Square
Cambridge
617-520-4030
Har
Gloucester
617-902-8291
27 Pleasant St
Gloucester
9782830455
135 South St.
Hyannis
(508) 775-1723
869 Main Street/route 6a
Brewster
508-896-3867
200 Mill Road, Suite 100
Fairhaven
8006427515
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