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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Captain Gershom Bradford House
Duxbury
Built in 1808 by shipmaster Gershom Bradford, the house belonged to four generations of seafaring Bradfords before the last generation gave... more
Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House
Duxbury
Acquired by the Society in 1997 through a community fundraising effort, the Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House is perhaps the most architecturally... more
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Alden House Historic Site
105 Alden St.
Po Box 2754
Duxbury
781-934-9092 - B
Duxbury Rural and Historical Society
479 Washington Street
Duxbury
781-934-6106 - C
Captain Gershom Bradford House
931 Tremont St.
Duxbury
781-934-6106 - D
Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House
479 Washington Street
Po Box 2865
Duxbury
781-934-6106
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