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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Greater Light
Nantucket
Hadwen House
Nantucket
Maria Mitchell House
Nantucket
Old Gaol
Nantucket
Old Mill
Nantucket
The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
Nantucket
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Greater Light
8 Howard St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - B
Hadwen House
96 Main St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - C
Maria Mitchell House
1 Vestal St.
Nantucket
508-228-2896 - D
Old Gaol
15r Vestal St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - E
Old Mill
50 Prospect St.
Nantucket
(508) 228-1894 - F
The Oldest House/Jethro Coffin House
16 Sunset Hill
Nantucket
508-228-1894
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