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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FORT TABER - FORT RODMAN MILITARY MUSEUM
New Bedford
Lewis Temple Statue
New Bedford
New Bedford Free Public Library
New Bedford
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
New Bedford
Seamen's Bethel
New Bedford
Whaleman Statue
New Bedford
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center
New Bedford
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FORT TABER - FORT RODMAN MILITARY MUSEUM
1000c Rodney French Blvd.
New Bedford
508-994-3938 - B
Lewis Temple Statue
613 Pleasant Street
New Bedford
508-979-1745 - C
New Bedford Free Public Library
613 Pleasant Street
New Bedford
(508) 991-6275 - D
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
33 William Street
New Bedford
508-996-4095 - E
Seamen's Bethel
15 Johnny Cake Hill
New Bedford
508-992-3295 - F
Whaleman Statue
613 Pleasant Street
New Bedford
508-979-1745 - G
Zeiterion Performing Arts Center
684 Purchase St.
New Bedford
508-994-2900
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