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
Alden House Historic Site
Duxbury
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society
Duxbury
Jenney Interpretive Centre
Plymouth
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
New Bedford
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford
Old Colony History Museum
Taunton
The Paragon Carousel
Hull
Pilgrim Hall Museum
Plymouth
Plymouth Cordage Historical Society Museum
Plymouth
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1699 Historic Winslow House
635 Careswell Street
Marshfield
781-837-5753 - B
Alden House Historic Site
105 Alden St.
Po Box 2754
Duxbury
781-934-9092 - C
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society
479 Washington Street
Duxbury
781-934-6106 - D
Jenney Interpretive Centre
48 Summer Street
Plymouth
508-747-4544 - E
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center
38 Bethel Street
New Bedford
508-993-8894 - F
New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hill
New Bedford
508-997-0046 - G
Old Colony History Museum
66 Church Green
Taunton
5088221622 - H
The Paragon Carousel
205 Nantasket Ave.
Hull
781-925-0472 - I
Pilgrim Hall Museum
75 Court Street
Plymouth
508-746-1620 - J
Plymouth Cordage Historical Society Museum
10 Cordage Park Circle
Plymouth
774-454-9945
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