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Mystic is a
small village in Southeastern Connecticut, with a history steeped
in the old traditions of the Seafaring ways. A wide variety of interesting
and unique historic resources awaits the savvy traveller. While
Mystic still exhibits a strain of genuine New England Yankee stubborness,
Mystic can also warm your heart with its open hospitality and village
charm.
Mystic Seaport
is the largest and most comprehensive maritime museum in North America.
Here you can sail or row exact replicas of our traditional wooden
boats, cruise in our antique steamboat, participate in formal classes,
ride a horse-drawn carriage, star gaze in our planetarium, or spend
the day climbing aboard ships or just meandering along beautiful
riverfront gardens.
The Museum that is now Mystic Seaport was founded that year, in
the face of the Great Depression, by three men who thought that
preserving something from the maritime past might help provide a
touchstone to guide the nation through difficult times in the future.
They saw the sea as the force behind the nation's best qualities.
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