Historic Deerfield is a museum of early New England history and the arts in one of New England's most historic villages, founded in 1669, where twelve museum houses and other historic buildings stand among schools, a church, and private houses along a mile-long thoroughfare called The Street. Nearly all of the old houses have always been there, most on their original sites, and the museum offers guided and self-guided tours of houses that show how Deerfield and rural New England residents lived in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as collections of furniture, textiles, ceramics, silver, pewter, and other decorative arts. The Flynt Center of Early New England Life includes exhibition galleries and The Museum's Attic, and the surrounding landscape, the Channing Blake Footpath, the village burying ground, and the Old Deerfield National Historic Landmark are also part of Deerfield's history.

Photo: Devry Becker Jones

Deerfield, Massachusetts · USA