Pick up a program book and experience Revolutionary War-era Marblehead at various sites in the Historic District. Meet the wife of war hero, James Mugford; explore Fort Sewall with Glover’s Regiment; meet diarist Ashley Bowen portrayed by Don Friary and experience a loyalist service at St. Michael’s church; participate in a recreated town meeting and...
Pick up a program book and experience Revolutionary War-era Marblehead at various sites in the Historic District. Meet the wife of war hero, James Mugford; explore Fort Sewall with Glover’s Regiment; meet diarist Ashley Bowen portrayed by Don Friary and experience a loyalist service at St. Michael’s church; participate in a recreated town meeting and...
Join Judy Anderson for an outdoor walking tour about Colonel Jeremiah Lee’s risky, secret, and ultimately fatal activities during a tumultuous year from June 1774 until his death in May 1775. Rebel American colonists, including Col. Lee, began taking daring and dangerous actions toward their revolutionary separation from England. Any of Lee's actions could have...
Join Judy Anderson for an outdoor walking tour about Colonel Jeremiah Lee’s risky, secret, and ultimately fatal activities during a tumultuous year from June 1774 until his death in May 1775. Rebel American colonists, including Col. Lee, began taking daring and dangerous actions toward their revolutionary separation from England. Any of Lee's actions could have...
Join Judy Anderson for an outdoor walking tour about Colonel Jeremiah Lee’s risky, secret, and ultimately fatal activities during a tumultuous year from June 1774 until his death in May 1775. Rebel American colonists, including Col. Lee, began taking daring and dangerous actions toward their revolutionary separation from England. Any of Lee's actions could have...
This illustrated talk by Judy Anderson will present a portrait of Marblehead at the peak of the town’s pre-Revolutionary prosperity, as social tensions and political divisions began to erupt. Judy will profile our gritty but thriving seaport in the two generations before the grueling struggle for independence. As Britain’s colonies in North America launched into...
Saturday, April 20th 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Jeremiah Lee Mansion Gardens **Rain Date is Sunday, April 21st** Members: $10 per Person / $25 per Family Non-Members: $15 per Person / $40 per Family Ages 3 & Under: FREE Come enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial New England at Marblehead Museum’s 1st Annual...
A Lecture by Robert Allison, Ph.D., Suffolk University Thursday, March 21, 7pm At Marblehead Museum & Virtual via Zoom Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament cracked down on Massachusetts. Find out how the Coercive Acts (or, as Massachusetts called them, "the Intolerable Acts") made otherwise loyal subjects into rebels by taking power to choose local...
Marblehead Museum is thrilled to announce the acquisition of a 1779 letter from General George Washington to Marblehead's heroic Revolutionary War general, John Glover. This special letter, featuring George Washington's signature, is a reply to John Glover's request to resign from the Continental Army due to the recent death of his wife, Hannah. The response,...
