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Old Deerfield, Massachusetts |
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Walk the wide main street of Historic Deerfield, lined with well-preserved 18th-century houses, for free. You may tour the interiors of the old buildings for a fee. |
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About 15 miles north of Northampton and Amherst on US Route 5 and MA Route 10 is Historic Deerfield, a fascinating vestige of earlier times in Massachusetts' Pioneer Valley. The town's original long main street (called, creatively, The Street) shaded by enormous trees and lined with historic houses, churches, a comfy inn, and the renowned Deerfield academy private school, has been preserved and is now a museum of early American history. You can spend as little as a half hour here, but it makes more sense to plan a morning or an afternoon looking at the various house museums, enjoying the colonial and early American ambience, and perhaps enjoying a meal or even an overnight at the Deerfield Inn. Here's what to see and do in Old Deerfield.
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First Church, US Post Office and store in Old Deerfield MA.
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