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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Salem Old Town Hall
Salem
Salem On Your Own
Salem
Salem Trolley
Salem
Salem Witch Museum
Salem
Seaside Shadows Haunted History Tours
Salem
Winter Island Light
Salem
Witchwood Tours
Salem
Essex Heritage Area
Salem
500 square miles of historic, cultural, and natural sites... unique and irreplaceable treasures that tell our history. more
New England Pirate Museum
Salem
Colonial seaport, pirate cave, and 60 life-size pirates including notorious captains Kidd and Blackbeard. more
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
Salem
From the Orientation Center, National Park Service rangers will take you on tours of Friendship, Salem's own three-masted tall ship;... more
Witch Dungeon Museum
Salem
Reenactment of witch trial; dungeon tour. more
Witch History Museum
Salem
Historically-accurate untold stories of 1692; live presentation and guided tour. more
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Salem Old Town Hall
32 Derby Square
Box 4551
Salem
978-606-7426 - B
Salem On Your Own
Museum Place Mall
Salem
781-248-2031 - C
Salem Trolley
Departs From Visitor's Center
2 New Liberty Street
Salem
978-744-5469 - D
Salem Witch Museum
19 1/2 Washington Square North
Salem
800.544.1692 - E
Seaside Shadows Haunted History Tours
Liberty Street
Salem
8607548923 - F
Winter Island Light
Winter Island Rd.
Salem
978-745-9430 - G
Witchwood Tours
75 Willson Street
Salem
978-254-3994 - H
Essex Heritage Area
10 Federal Street
Salem
978-740-0444 - I
New England Pirate Museum
274 Derby St.
Salem
978-741-2800 - J
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
193 Derby St.
Salem
978-740-1660 - K
Witch Dungeon Museum
16 Lynde St.
Salem
978-741-3570 - L
Witch History Museum
197-201 Essex St.
Salem
978-741-7770
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