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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Battleship Cove
Fall River
Borden Flats Light
Fall River
Fall River Heritage State Park
Fall River
The Fall River Historical Society
Fall River
Marine Museum at Fall River
Fall River
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfasat/ Museum
Fall River
Site of infamous axe murders of 1892; Fall River and Lizzie Borden memorabilia; tours. more
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Battleship Cove
5 Water Street
Fall River
800.533.3194 - B
Borden Flats Light
Borden Light Marina
Fall River
401-253-9585 - C
Fall River Heritage State Park
200 Davol Street
Fall River
508-675-5759 - D
The Fall River Historical Society
451 Rock Street
Fall River
508-679-1071, ext. 1 or 2 - E
Marine Museum at Fall River
70 Water Street
Fall River
508 674 3533 - F
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfasat/ Museum
230 Second St.
(#92 Is The Historical Address)
Fall River
508-675-7333
Epic History: it's all here
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