History & Culture in Massachusetts

Solitary stone structures and a tale of tragedy are all that remains of a historic settlement built by French Protestant refugees.

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

This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.

This pavement line and accompanying statue commemorates the starting point for the world's oldest annual marathon.

This memorial is dedicated to a once popular but now defunct discount Shrewsbury department store.

Dedicated in 1895, this is the world's first tribute to the hardworking newspaper delivery boy.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.

The place where travelers of the Mohawk Trail forded the Deerfield River rather than pay the toll at the turnpike bridge.

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

A home built and settled by a refugee of the Salem Witch Trials.

The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.

A massive rotating globe sits at the center of Babson Park.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.