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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Cahoon Museum of American Art
Cotuit
Cape Cod National Seashore
Eastham
Cape Kayaking
Eatham
Greater Light
Nantucket
Hadwen House
Nantucket
Highfield Hall & Gardens
Falmouth
Highland Lighthouse
North Truro
Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit
Cotuit
Maria Mitchell House
Nantucket
Marta's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Oak Bluffs
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Vineyard Haven
Mass Audubon Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
Edgartown
Mass Audubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary
Cummaquid
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
South Wellfleet
Old Gaol
Nantucket
Old Mill
Nantucket
The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
Nantucket
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
Provincetown
Sail When and If
Hyannis
Winslow Crocker House, A Historic New England Property
Yarmouth Port
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Cahoon Museum of American Art
4676 Falmouth Road
Po Box 1853
Cotuit
5084287581 - B
Cape Cod National Seashore
Salt Pond Visitor Center
Rt. 6
Eastham
508-255-3421 - C
Cape Kayaking
222 Hemenway Road
Eatham
508 247 7402 - D
Greater Light
8 Howard St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - E
Hadwen House
96 Main St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - F
Highfield Hall & Gardens
56 Highfield Dr
Falmouth
508-495-1878 - G
Highland Lighthouse
27 Highland Light Road
P.o. Box 699
North Truro
(508) 487-1121 - H
Historical Society of Santuit & Cotuit
1148 Main St.
Po Box 1484
Cotuit
5084280461 - I
Maria Mitchell House
1 Vestal St.
Nantucket
508-228-2896 - J
Marta's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Trinity Circle
Oak Bluffs
(508) 693-0525 - K
Martha's Vineyard Museum
151 Lagoon Pond Road
Vineyard Haven
508-627-4441 - L
Mass Audubon Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary
100 Felix Neck Drive
Off Edgartown Vineyard Haven Rd.
Edgartown
508-627-4850 - M
Mass Audubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary
345 Bone Hill Road
Po Box 235
Cummaquid
508-362-7475 x 9353 - N
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
291 State Highway Route 6
South Wellfleet
(508) 349-2615 - O
Old Gaol
15r Vestal St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - P
Old Mill
50 Prospect St.
Nantucket
(508) 228-1894 - Q
The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
16 Sunset Hill
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - R
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
One High Pole Hill
Provincetown
508-487-1310 - S
Sail When and If
Cape Cod Maritime Museum
135 South St
Hyannis
305 699 7787 - T
Winslow Crocker House, A Historic New England Property
250 Main Street (route 6a)
Old King's Highway
Yarmouth Port
617-994-6661
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