History in Massachusetts

An engraved granite slab claims to mark the location where Leif Erikson built his house in the year 1000.

This interactive museum is dedicated to the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution” and founder of one of the nation’s earliest boomtowns.

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

Ghostly specters are said to haunt this secluded cave where a famed Wampanoag leader spent the final days of his life.

The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

This historic Massachusetts tavern played a critical role in the start of the American Revolution.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.