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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Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company: Museum & Library
Boston
Behold Boston Tours
Boston
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Boston
Freedom Trail® Foundation
Boston
Old North Church
Boston
The Trustees
Boston
Boch Center
Boston
The Boch Center is one of the nation's leading nonprofit performing arts institutions and a guardian of the historic Wang... more
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Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company: Museum & Library
Ahac, Armory, Fourth Floor
Faneuil Hall
Boston
617 227 1638 - B
Behold Boston Tours
137 Pearl St
Unit 4
Boston
6154826254 - C
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Merchants Row
Boston
617-242-5675 - D
Freedom Trail® Foundation
44 School Street, Suite 250
Boston
617-357-8300 - E
Old North Church
193 Salem Street
Between Unity And Hull Streets
Boston
6175236676 - F
The Trustees
200 High Street
4th Floor
Boston
617.542.7696 x2123 - G
Boch Center
270 Tremont St
Boston
617-482-9393
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