This was an amazing site to visit. They had members of the Wampanoag tribe in traditional garb who told about their people and how they would have lived. We thoroughly enjoyed visiting with the tribe members and learning more about their culture.
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This is a great site for anyone wanting to get a feel for how the early European settlers in North America lived. They have recreated a village similar to what the Plymouth Colony would have looked like. They also have living history participants on site to talk about how people would have lived in the colony. We visited here in 2015.
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This is a fascinating site to visit. There are several homes on site, Edison’s lab, study and a museum. When we visited in 2015, we arrived late in the day and did not have time to tour the entire site. The day we were there, a storm was approaching, so they shut down the site early that day.
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This is a unique historic site featuring a plantation house, grounds and a small museum. The house is an ante-bellum style house with buttresses. It was a significant location during the American Civil War.
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Stephen Ingram was a veteran of the Second Seminole War who moved to this site in Texas in 1850. He died just eight years later, in 1858. Some of the graves are above ground and were built not long after the American Civil War era.
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We visited this site in 2013. It was not far from the American Precision Museum and both could easily be seen in the same day. This was originally Elijah West’s Tavern where the Vermont Constitution was signed in 1777.
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