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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1699 Historic Winslow House
Marshfield
1749 Court House Museum
Plymouth
1794 Meetinghouse
New Salem
Abigail Adams Birthplace
Weymouth
Adams National Historical Park
Quincy
African Meeting House on Nantucket/The Museum of Afro-American History
Nantucket
Alden House Historic Site
Duxbury
American Heritage Museum
Hudson
Amherst Business Improvement District
Amherst
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company: Museum & Library
Boston
Appleton Farms
Ipswich
Aquinnah Cultural Center
Aquinnah,
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Boston
Arrowhead
Pittsfield
Asa Waters Mansion
Millbury
Bakers Island Light
Salem
Battle Green Tour
Lexington
Battleship Cove
Fall River
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Gloucester
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1699 Historic Winslow House
635 Careswell Street
Marshfield
781-837-5753 - B
1749 Court House Museum
4 Town Square
Plymouth
508-830-4075 - C
1794 Meetinghouse
Po Box 8 / 26 S Main Stree
New Salem
(413) 335-3489 - D
Abigail Adams Birthplace
180 Norton St.
Box 147
Weymouth
781-335-4205 - E
Adams National Historical Park
1250 Hancock Street
Adams National Historical Park Visitor Center
Quincy
617-770-1175 - F
African Meeting House on Nantucket/The Museum of Afro-American History
29 York St.
Nantucket
508-228-9833 - G
Alden House Historic Site
105 Alden St.
Po Box 2754
Duxbury
781-934-9092 - H
American Heritage Museum
568 Main Street
Hudson
978-562-9182 - I
Amherst Business Improvement District
35 South Pleasant Street
Amherst
413-345-2945 - J
Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company: Museum & Library
Ahac, Armory, Fourth Floor
Faneuil Hall
Boston
617 227 1638 - K
Appleton Farms
219 County Road
Ipswich
978.356.5728 - L
Aquinnah Cultural Center
35 Aquinnah Circle (location)
10 Black Brook Rd. (mailing)
Aquinnah,
(508)645-7900 - M
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
125 Arborway
Boston
617-524-1718 - N
Arrowhead
780 Holmes Rd.
Pittsfield
413-442-1793 - O
Asa Waters Mansion
123 Elm Street
Po Box 421
Millbury
508-865-0855 - P
Bakers Island Light
Baker Island Light
Salem
978-740-0444 - Q
Battle Green Tour
1875 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington
339-223-5623 - R
Battleship Cove
5 Water Street
Fall River
800.533.3194 - S
Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, a Historic New England property
75 Eastern Point Boulevard
Gloucester
978-283-0800 - T
Behold Boston Tours
137 Pearl St
Unit 4
Boston
6154826254
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