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2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Petersham, Massachusetts

Updated July 25, 2019

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Fisher Museum Forestry Dioramas

Petersham, Massachusetts

Fisher Museum Forestry Dioramas

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

A marker on Dana Common.

Petersham, Massachusetts

Town of Dana

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

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Naramore grave

Barre, Massachusetts

Naramore Grave

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

8 miles from Petersham

Massachusetts Peace Statue

Orange, Massachusetts

Massachusetts Peace Statue

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

9 miles from Petersham

Woman’s Christian Temperance Fountain

Orange, Massachusetts

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Fountain

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

9 miles from Petersham

New Braintree, Massachusetts

Siege of Brookfield Historic Markers

Solitary stones tell the story of an early battle in one of colonial America’s most brutal and forgotten wars.

9 miles from Petersham

Quabbin Reservoir

Ware, Massachusetts

Quabbin Reservoir

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

10 miles from Petersham

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