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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635 Careswell Street
Marshfield
781-837-5753
105 Alden St.
Po Box 2754
Duxbury
781-934-9092
35 South Pleasant Street
Amherst
413-345-2945
Ahac, Armory, Fourth Floor
Faneuil Hall
Boston
617 227 1638
780 Holmes Rd.
Pittsfield
413-442-1793
75 Eastern Point Boulevard
Gloucester
978-283-0800
117 Cabot St.
Beverly
978-922-1186
Bewitched In Salem
180 Essex Street
Salem
978-498-4061
100 Art School Rd.
Monterey
413-528-6888
1 Washington Mall
Boston
857-233-5437
286 Waverley Avenue
Newton
617.641.9142
479 Washington Street
Duxbury
781-934-6106
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
800-334-2443
Columbia Point
Boston
617-740-7000
1424 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-994-6600
Merchants Row
Boston
617-242-5675
44 School Street, Suite 250
Boston
617-357-8300
80 Hesperus Avenue
Gloucester
978-283-2080
2 Southbridge Street
Worcester
877.571.SHOW (7469)
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge
617-495-3045
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