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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Columbia Point
Boston
617-740-7000
2468 B Washington St.
Rte. 138
Canton
978.356.4351 x8814; 781.821.2996
280 Main Street
Amherst
413.542.8161
131 West Main Street
Room 222
Orange
978-549-1747
10 Federal St
Suite 12
Salem
978-740-0444
1424 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-994-6600
141 Main Street
Fairhaven
508-979-4085
141 Main Street
Fairhaven
508-979-4085
200 Davol Street
Fall River
508-675-5759
451 Rock Street
Fall River
508-679-1071, ext. 1 or 2
Merchants Row
Boston
617-242-5675
324 North Main Street
Petersham
978-724-3302
Green St.
Fairhaven
508-992-4524
1000c Rodney French Blvd.
New Bedford
508-994-3938
44 School Street, Suite 250
Boston
617-357-8300
94 Jackson Road
Suite 311
Devens
978-772-3654
102 Prospect Hill Road
Harvard
978-456-3924
7 Lynde St.
Salem
978 825 0222
9 Aquinnah Circle
Aquinnah
508-627-4441
Gedney House Museum
21 High Street
Salem
978-744-0440
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