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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Hocus Pocus Tours
Salem
Holyoke Heritage State Park
Holyoke,
The House of the Seven Gables
Salem
Hull Lifesaving Museum
Hull
The Innovation Trail
Boston
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich
Jabez Howland House
Plymouth
Jackson Homestead and Museum
Newton
Jenney Interpretive Centre
Plymouth
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
Whitinsville
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
Quincy
King Richard's Faire
Carver
Lamson & Goodnow Factory Outlet
Shelburne Falls
Larcom Theatre
Beverly
Lewis Temple Statue
New Bedford
Lexington Historical Society
Lexington
Lexington Symphony
Lexington
Lexington Visitors Center
Lexington
The Liberty Fleet of Tall Ships
Boston
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Hocus Pocus Tours
Just Outside The Main Entrance To The Museum Place Mall On Essex Street
Salem
1-781-248-2031 - B
Holyoke Heritage State Park
221 Appleton Street
Holyoke,
413-534-1723 - C
The House of the Seven Gables
115 Derby Street
Salem
978-744-0991 - D
Hull Lifesaving Museum
1117 Nantasket Ave.
Hull
781-925-5433 - E
The Innovation Trail
Po Box 130386
Boston
N/A - F
Ipswich Museum
54 South Main St.
Ipswich
978-356-2811 - G
Ipswich Museum
54 S. Main St.
Ipswich
9783562811 - H
Jabez Howland House
33 Sandwich St.
Plymouth
508-746-9590 - I
Jackson Homestead and Museum
527 Washington Street
Newton
6177961450 - J
Jenney Interpretive Centre
48 Summer Street
Plymouth
508-747-4544 - K
John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
670 Linwood Avenue
Whitinsville
(508) 234-4242 - L
Josiah Quincy House, A Historic New England Property
20 Muirhead Street
Quincy
617-994-5930 - M
King Richard's Faire
235 Main Street (rt. 58)
Carver
508-866-5391 - N
Lamson & Goodnow Factory Outlet
45 Conway Street
Shelburne Falls
413-625-0201 - O
Larcom Theatre
13 Wallis St
Beverly
978-922-6313 - P
Lewis Temple Statue
613 Pleasant Street
New Bedford
508-979-1745 - Q
Lexington Historical Society
13 Depot Square
Lexington
781-862-1703 - R
Lexington Symphony
Po Box 194
Lexington
781-523-9009 - S
Lexington Visitors Center
1875 Massachusetts Ave.
Lexington
781-862-1450 - T
The Liberty Fleet of Tall Ships
67 Long Wharf
Boston
617-742-0333
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