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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Cape Cod Maritime Museum
Hyannis
JFK Hyannis Museum
Hyannis
Massachusetts Air and Space Museum
Hyannis
Sail When and If
Hyannis
Cape Cod Lighthouse Tours
Hyannis
Five historic Cape Cod lighthouses are open to the public for tours during the summer months and on special occasions... more
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Cape Cod Maritime Museum
135 South St.
Hyannis
(508) 775-1723 - B
JFK Hyannis Museum
397 Main St.
Hyannis
508-790-3077 - C
Massachusetts Air and Space Museum
The Landing (capetown Plaza)
790 Iyannough Road
Hyannis
508)827-6300 - D
Sail When and If
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
135 South St
Hyannis
305 699 7787 - E
Cape Cod Lighthouse Tours
Various
Hyannis
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Epic History: it's all here
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