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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African Meeting House on Nantucket/The Museum of Afro-American History
Nantucket
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Greater Light
Nantucket
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Hadwen House
Nantucket
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Maria Mitchell House
Nantucket
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Nantucket Historical Association Research Library & Archives
Nantucket
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Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
Nantucket
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Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
Nantucket
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Nantucket Whaling Museum
Nantucket
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Old Gaol
Nantucket
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Old Mill
Nantucket
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The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
Nantucket
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Sankaty Head Light
Nantucket
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Nantucket Convservation Foundation
Nantucket
The mission of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation is to assist in the preservation of Nantucket's character by permanently conserving, maintaining,... more
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African Meeting House on Nantucket/The Museum of Afro-American History
29 York St.
Nantucket
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Greater Light
8 Howard St.
Nantucket
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Hadwen House
96 Main St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 -
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Maria Mitchell House
1 Vestal St.
Nantucket
508-228-2896 -
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Nantucket Historical Association Research Library & Archives
7 Fair Street
Nantucket
508-228-1894, press 5 -
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Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
49 Union Street
Nantucket
5082281177 -
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Nantucket Shipwreck and Lifesaving Museum
158 Polpis Road
Nantucket
508-228-2505 -
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Nantucket Whaling Museum
13 Broad St.
Nantucket
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Old Gaol
15r Vestal St.
Nantucket
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Old Mill
50 Prospect St.
Nantucket
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The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
16 Sunset Hill
Nantucket
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Sankaty Head Light
Baxter St.
Nantucket
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Nantucket Convservation Foundation
118 Cliff Road
Nantucket
508-228-2884
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