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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French Cable Station Museum
Orleans
This station when it was in operation was the American termination point for a telegraph cable that came directly to... more
Orleans Historical Society Museum
Orleans
A Greek Revival structure that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Formerly used as the Meeting House for... more
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French Cable Station Museum
41 Rt. 28 Orleans, Ma 02653
Orleans
5082401735 - B
Orleans Historical Society Museum
Main Street And River Road
Orleans
508-240-1329
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