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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Brookline
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
Orange
Freedom Trail® Foundation
Boston
Paul Revere Heritage Site
Canton
White's Landing
Brookfield
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Bostonprivateguide
165 Newton Street
Brookline
6173064877 - B
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
131 West Main Street
Room 222
Orange
978-549-1747 - C
Freedom Trail® Foundation
44 School Street, Suite 250
Boston
617-357-8300 - D
Paul Revere Heritage Site
4 Rolling Mill Way
Canton
3392371696 - E
White's Landing
7 Fiskdale Rd
Brookfield
508-867-5561
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