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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Arrowhead
Pittsfield
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
Orange
Melville Trail
Pittsfield
Notchview Reservation
Windsor
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
Great Barrington
Forbes Library
Northampton
Tyringham Cobble
Tyringham
A geologic wonder, the Cobble was born from massive tectonic movements that shifted ancient strata, leaving an exposed underbelly of... more
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Arrowhead
780 Holmes Rd.
Pittsfield
413-442-1793 - B
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
131 West Main Street
Room 222
Orange
978-549-1747 - C
Melville Trail
780 Holmes Road
Pittsfield
413.442.1793 - D
Notchview Reservation
Route 9
Windsor
413.684.0148 - E
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
Po Box 611
Great Barrington
413-629-4500 - F
Forbes Library
20 West Street
Northampton
413-587-1011 - G
Tyringham Cobble
Jerusalem Rd.
Tyringham
413.298.3239
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