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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John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
Whitinsville
Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
Worcester
Royalston Falls
Royalston
White's Landing
Brookfield
Fitchburg Historical Society
Fitchburg
Founded by James F.D. Garfield in 1892, the Fitchburg Historical Society is an independent non-profit that was created to collect,... more
Rock House Reservation
West Brookfield
Built by the glacier and blessed by indigenous tribes who hunted and worshiped here, the cave-like shelter and its surroundings... more
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John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
670 Linwood Avenue
Whitinsville
(508) 234-4242 - B
Mass Audubon Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary
414 Massasoit Road
Worcester
508-753-6087 - C
Royalston Falls
Route 32, Falls Rd.
Royalston
413.532.1631 - D
White's Landing
7 Fiskdale Rd
Brookfield
508-867-5561 - E
Fitchburg Historical Society
781 Main Street
Po Box 953
Fitchburg
9783451157 - F
Rock House Reservation
Rt. 9
West Brookfield
413.532.1631
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