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Browse historic places by state or historical era.
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Boston, MA
An immersive waterfront museum uses costumed interpreters, replica ships, interactive exhibits, and an original tea chest to recreate the Boston Tea Party.
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Lexington, MA
The historic common where Lexington militia and British regulars exchanged the opening gunfire of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775.
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Chatham, MA
A preserved 1752 sea captain’s home and expanded museum campus interpreting centuries of Chatham and Cape Cod history.
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Fall River, MA
A waterfront fleet museum where visitors can board landmark American warships spanning World War II through the Vietnam era.
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North Easton, MA
A former Ames family country estate pairing an early-twentieth-century stone mansion with designed grounds, ponds, and miles of recreational trails.
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Boston, MA
A free museum inside an 1891 firehouse preserves antique apparatus, alarms, artifacts, and stories from Boston’s pioneering professional fire department.
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Boston, MA
A circular pavement marker outside the Old State House identifies the place where British soldiers killed five colonists on March 5, 1770.
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Lexington, MA
A preserved colonial tavern where Lexington militiamen gathered before confronting British troops on April 19, 1775.
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Essex, MA
A working maritime museum on a historic Essex River shipyard that preserves the town’s renowned wooden shipbuilding tradition.
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Boston, MA
Boston’s historic market and meeting hall has served for nearly three centuries as a stage for debates over liberty, abolition, suffrage, labor, and civic life.
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Hull, MA
A hilltop harbor-defense site preserving military remains from the American Revolution through the world-war era.
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Framingham, MA
A three-building historic campus on Framingham Centre Common preserving more than four centuries of community history.
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Lexington, MA
The Lexington parsonage where Paul Revere warned John Hancock and Samuel Adams that British troops were approaching.
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Boston, MA
An I. M. Pei-designed presidential library on Boston Harbor that brings John F. Kennedy’s life, administration, and enduring civic legacy into vivid focus.
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Lincoln, MA
A preserved landscape of battlefields, roads, bridges, and historic homes where the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775.
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Cambridge, MA
America’s pioneering garden cemetery combines nationally significant history, notable monuments, and a richly planted landscape overlooking Greater Boston.
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Haverhill, MA
A hands-on museum tracing the evolution of printing, typography, graphic arts, and communication technology.
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Boston, MA
The 1729 meeting house where thousands debated British taxation before the gathering spilled into the streets and became the Boston Tea Party.
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