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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Historical Piano Concerts, Inc.
Ashburnham
Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit
Cotuit
The House of the Seven Gables
Salem
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Hull
The Icon Museum and Study Center
Clinton
The Innovation Trail
Boston
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich
Jabez Howland House
Plymouth
Jackson Homestead and Museum
Newton
Jenney Interpretive Centre
Plymouth
JFK Hyannis Museum
Hyannis
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Boston
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
Quincy
Keep Homestead Museum
Monson
L. S. Starrett Museum
Athol
Lexington Historical Society
Lexington
Lexington Visitors Center
Lexington
Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
Concord
Lyman Estate Mansion and Greenhouses, A Historic New England Property
Waltham
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Historical Piano Concerts, Inc.
15 Water Street
30 Main Street
Ashburnham
978-827-6232 - B
Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit
1148 Main St.
Po Box 1484
Cotuit
5084280461 - C
The House of the Seven Gables
115 Derby Street
Salem
978-744-0991 - D
Hull Lifesaving Museum
1117 Nantasket Ave.
Hull
781-925-5433 - E
The Icon Museum and Study Center
203 Union St.
Clinton
978-598-5000 - F
The Innovation Trail
Po Box 130386
Boston
N/A - G
Ipswich Museum
54 South Main St.
Ipswich
978-356-2811 - H
Ipswich Museum
54 S. Main St.
Ipswich
9783562811 - I
Jabez Howland House
33 Sandwich St.
Plymouth
508-746-9590 - J
Jackson Homestead and Museum
527 Washington Street
Newton
6177961450 - K
Jenney Interpretive Centre
48 Summer Street
Plymouth
508-747-4544 - L
JFK Hyannis Museum
397 Main St.
Hyannis
508-790-3077 - M
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Columbia Point
Boston
866-535-1960 - N
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
20 Muirhead Street
Quincy
617-994-5930 - O
Keep Homestead Museum
35 Ely Rd.
Mailing: 110 Main St.
Monson
413-267-4137 - P
L. S. Starrett Museum
121 Crescent Street
Athol
978-249-3551 - Q
Lexington Historical Society
13 Depot Square
Lexington
781-862-1703 - R
Lexington Visitors Center
1875 Massachusetts Ave.
Lexington
781-862-1450 - S
Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
399 Lexington Road
Concord
978-369-4118 - T
Lyman Estate Mansion and Greenhouses, A Historic New England Property
185 Lyman Street
Waltham
617-994-5912
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