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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Jenney Interpretive Centre
Plymouth
Pilgrim Hall Museum
Plymouth
Plymouth Cordage Historical Society Museum
Plymouth
Priscilla Beach Theatre
Plymouth
Spirit of Plymouth Walking Tours
Plymouth
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Jenney Interpretive Centre
48 Summer Street
Plymouth
508-747-4544 - B
Pilgrim Hall Museum
75 Court Street
Plymouth
508-746-1620 - C
Plymouth Cordage Historical Society Museum
10 Cordage Park Circle
Plymouth
774-454-9945 - D
Priscilla Beach Theatre
800 Rocky Hill Road
Plymouth
(508) 224-4888 - E
Spirit of Plymouth Walking Tours
126 Water Street
Plymouth
508-517-8355
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