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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Cape Poge Light
Edgartown
Edgartown Lighthouse
Edgartown
Mass Audubon Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Edgartown
Wasque Reservation
Chappaquidick Island
This southeastern corner of Martha's Vineyard is undergoing dramatic change due to the seismic currents which are re-shaping this coastal... more
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Cape Poge Light
Chappaquiddick Island
Edgartown
508-693-7662 - B
Edgartown Lighthouse
131 North Water Street
Edgartown
508-627-4441 - C
Mass Audubon Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
100 Felix Neck Drive
Off Edgartown Vineyard Haven Rd.
Edgartown
508-627-4850 - D
Wasque Reservation
Wasque Road
Chappaquidick Island
508.627.3599
Epic History: it's all here
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