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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Major John Bradford Homestead
Kingston
Marblehead Museum
Marblehead
Marblehead Museum and Historical Society
Marblehead
Marine Museum at Fall River
Fall River
Maritime Gloucester
Gloucester
Marshfield Historical Society
Marshfield
Marta's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Oak Bluffs
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Vineyard Haven
Martin House Farm
Swansea
Mary Baker Eddy Historic House - Stoughton
Stoughton
Mary Baker Eddy House
Amesbury
Mary Baker Eddy House
Swampscott
The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Boston
Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum
Milton
Mass Audubon Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary
Sharon
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
South Wellfleet
Massachusetts Air and Space Museum
Hyannis
Massachusetts Mayflower Society
Hingham
Mattapoisett Museum
Mattapoisett
Mayflower Society House
Plymouth
- A
Major John Bradford Homestead
50 Landing Road
Kingston
774-454-4699 - B
Marblehead Museum
170 Washington Street
161 Washington Street
Marblehead
7816311768 - C
Marblehead Museum and Historical Society
170 Washington St.
Marblehead
781-631-1768 - D
Marine Museum at Fall River
70 Water Street
Fall River
508 674 3533 - E
Maritime Gloucester
23 Harbor Loop
Gloucester
978 281-0470 - F
Marshfield Historical Society
65 Webster Street
Marshfield
781-834-0100 - G
Marta's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
Trinity Circle
Oak Bluffs
(508) 693-0525 - H
Martha's Vineyard Museum
151 Lagoon Pond Road
Vineyard Haven
508-627-4441 - I
Martin House Farm
22 Stoney Hill Road
At Route 6
Swansea
617-742-3190 - J
Mary Baker Eddy Historic House - Stoughton
133 Central Street
Stoughton
800-277-8943 - K
Mary Baker Eddy House
277 Main St.
Amesbury
800.277.8943, ext. 100 - L
Mary Baker Eddy House
23 Paradise Rd.
Swampscott
781-599-1853 - M
The Mary Baker Eddy Library
200 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston
617-450-7000 - N
Mass Audubon Blue Hills Trailside Museum
1904 Canton Avenue
Milton
617-333-0690 - O
Mass Audubon Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary
293 Moose Hill Parkway
Sharon
781-784-5691 - P
Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
291 State Highway Route 6
South Wellfleet
(508) 349-2615 - Q
Massachusetts Air and Space Museum
The Landing (capetown Plaza)
790 Iyannough Road
Hyannis
508)827-6300 - R
Massachusetts Mayflower Society
175 Derby Street
Hingham
781-875-3194 - S
Mattapoisett Museum
5 Church Street
P.o. Box 535
Mattapoisett
508-758-2844 - T
Mayflower Society House
4 Winslow St.
Plymouth
508-746-3188
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