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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1794 Meetinghouse
New Salem
Amherst Business Improvement District
Amherst
Arrowhead
Pittsfield
Beneski Museum of Natural History @ Amherst College
Amherst
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield
Bidwell House Museum
Monterey
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
Cricket Creek Farm
Williamstown
Dewey Memorial Hall
Sheffield
Eastern States Exposition
West Springfield
The Emily Dickinson Museum
Amherst
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
Orange
Franklin County Fairgrounds
Greenfield
Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield
High Lawn Farm
Lee
Historic Deerfield
Deerfield
Holyoke Heritage State Park
Holyoke,
Keep Homestead Museum
Monson
Lamson & Goodnow Factory Outlet
Shelburne Falls
Mass Audubon Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary
Easthampton
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1794 Meetinghouse
Po Box 8 / 26 S Main Stree
New Salem
(413) 335-3489 - B
Amherst Business Improvement District
35 South Pleasant Street
Amherst
413-345-2945 - C
Arrowhead
780 Holmes Rd.
Pittsfield
413-442-1793 - D
Beneski Museum of Natural History @ Amherst College
11 Barrett Hill Drive
Box 5000
Amherst
413-542-5054 - E
Berkshire Museum
39 South St (route 7)
Pittsfield
413-443-7171 - F
Bidwell House Museum
100 Art School Rd.
Monterey
413-528-6888 - G
Crane Museum of Papermaking
Dalton
Dalton
413-684-6380 - H
Cricket Creek Farm
1255 Oblong Road
Williamstown
413-458-5888 - I
Dewey Memorial Hall
91 Main Street
Sheffield
(413) 229-2357 - J
Eastern States Exposition
1305 Memorial Avenue
West Springfield
800-334-2443 - K
The Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street
Amherst
413.542.8161 - L
ENQ ~ Explore North Quabbin
131 West Main Street
Room 222
Orange
978-549-1747 - M
Franklin County Fairgrounds
89 Wisdom Way
Greenfield
413-774-4282 - N
Hancock Shaker Village
1843 W Housatonic St. (routes 20 & 41)
Po Box 927
Pittsfield
413-443-0188 - O
High Lawn Farm
535 Summer Street
Lee
4132430627 - P
Historic Deerfield
80 Old Main St.
(off Rts. 5 And 10)
Deerfield
413-775-7214 - Q
Holyoke Heritage State Park
221 Appleton Street
Holyoke,
413-534-1723 - R
Keep Homestead Museum
35 Ely Rd.
Mailing: 110 Main St.
Monson
413-267-4137 - S
Lamson & Goodnow Factory Outlet
45 Conway Street
Shelburne Falls
413-625-0201 - T
Mass Audubon Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary
127 Combs Rd.
Easthampton
413-584-3009
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