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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Adams National Historical Park
Quincy
Church of the Presidents, United First Parish Church, Quincy
Quincy
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
Quincy
Quincy Homestead
Quincy
U.S.S. Salem CA139, United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
Quincy
Quincy History Museum at Quincy Historical Society
Quincy
The Quincy History Museum at Quincy Historical Society takes you through more than 400 years of some of America's richest, most... more
Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum
Quincy
The Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum was founded in 2008 to preserve the rich granite history of Quincy and surrounding... more
Thomas Crane Public Library
Quincy
Built in 1881 by noted architect Henry Hobson Richardson - who also designed Boston's famed Trinity Church - the Thomas Thomas... more
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Adams National Historical Park
1250 Hancock Street
Adams National Historical Park Visitor Center
Quincy
617-770-1175 - B
Church of the Presidents, United First Parish Church, Quincy
1306 Hancock Street
Quincy
617-773-0062 - C
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
20 Muirhead Street
Quincy
617-994-5930 - D
Quincy Homestead
34 Butler Road
Quincy
617-742-3190 - E
U.S.S. Salem CA139, United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum
549 South Street
Pier 3
Quincy
617-479-7900 - F
Quincy History Museum at Quincy Historical Society
8 Adams Street
Adams Academy
Quincy
617-773-1144 - G
Quincy Quarry and Granite Workers Museum
1418 Hancock Street
Quincy
1-617-472-1322 - H
Thomas Crane Public Library
40 Washington Street
Quincy
617-376-1301
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