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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670 Linwood Avenue
Whitinsville
(508) 234-4242
20 Muirhead Street
Quincy
617-994-5930
16 Main St.
Falmouth
555-555-5555
35 Ely Rd.
Mailing: 110 Main St.
Monson
413-267-4137
235 Main Street (rt. 58)
Carver
508-866-5391
121 Crescent Street
Athol
978-249-3551
45 Conway Street
Shelburne Falls
413-625-0201
13 Wallis St.
Beverly
978-927-3677
613 Pleasant Street
New Bedford
508-979-1745
Lexington Common
Massachusetts Avenue And Bedford Street
Lexington
339-223-5623
13 Depot Square
Lexington
781-862-1703
67 Long Wharf
Boston
617-742-0333
Lexington Visitors Center
1875 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington
781-862-0500 x260
430 Potomska Road
Dartmouth
508-990-0505
572 Essex St.
Beverly
978.921.1944
Provincetown Harbor
Provincetown
508-888-9784
399 Lexington Road
Concord
978-369-4118
160 Pawtucket Blvd.
Lowell
978-458-8750
246 Market St.
Lowell
978-970-5000
185 Lyman Street
Waltham
617-994-5912
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