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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Amherst Business Improvement District
Amherst
Arrowhead
Pittsfield
Bidwell House Museum
Monterey
Eastern States Exposition
West Springfield
Franklin County Fairgrounds
Greenfield
Historic Deerfield
Deerfield
Mass Audubon Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary
Easthampton
Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Lenox
Storrowton Village Museum
West Springfield
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Amherst Business Improvement District
35 South Pleasant Street
Amherst
413-345-2945 - B
Arrowhead
780 Holmes Rd.
Pittsfield
413-442-1793 - C
Bidwell House Museum
100 Art School Rd.
Monterey
413-528-6888 - D
Eastern States Exposition
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
800-334-2443 - E
Franklin County Fairgrounds
89 Wisdom Way
Greenfield
413-774-4282 - F
Historic Deerfield
80 Old Main St.
(off Rts. 5 And 10)
Deerfield
413-775-7214 - G
Mass Audubon Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary
127 Combs Rd.
Easthampton
413-584-3009 - H
Mass Audubon Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
472 West Mountain Road
Lenox
413-637-0320 - I
Storrowton Village Museum
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
413-205-5051
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