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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The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts
2 Southbridge Street
Worcester
877.571.SHOW (7469) - B
Historical Piano Concerts, Inc.
15 Water Street
30 Main Street
Ashburnham
978-827-6232 - C
The Icon Museum and Study Center
203 Union St.
Clinton
978-598-5000 - D
Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
414 Massasoit Road
Worcester
508-753-6087 - E
Optical Heritage Museum
12 Crane Street
Southbridge
7742308016 - F
Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary
113 Goodnow Rd
Princeton
978-464-2712
Epic History: it's all here
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