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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Long Point Light
Provincetown
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
Provincetown
Race Point Light
Provincetown
Wood End Light
Provincetown
Old Harbor Life Saving Station
Provincetown
Established in 1897, Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station was originally situated on Nauset Beach at the Chatham Harbor entrance.... more
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Long Point Light
Provincetown Harbor
Provincetown
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Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum
One High Pole Hill
Provincetown
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Race Point Light
Race Point Beach
Provincetown
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Wood End Light
Commercial St. Breakwater
Provincetown
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Old Harbor Life Saving Station
Race Point
Provincetown
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Epic History: it's all here
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