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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1736 Josiah Dennis Manse Museum
Dennis
Home of man for whom town of Dennis was named; artifacts of maritime and whaling history in 1736 saltbox home; children's... more
Scargo Tower
Dennis
Scargo Tower began as a tourist observatory in 1874. Made of wood, it was destroyed in a gale two years later.... more
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1736 Josiah Dennis Manse Museum
Nobscusset Rd. And Whig St.
Dennis
508-385-2232 - B
Scargo Tower
Scargo Hill Road
Dennis
508-385-2232
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