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15 Best Things to Do in Easton (MA)

Thirty minutes south of Boston, Easton is a town associated with the Ames Family, one of the oldest and most important dynasties in Massachusetts. The family arrived in Easton in the early 1800s, establishing a shovel factory that supplied the Union Army in the Civil War, and helped build the Union Pacific Railroad. Over several …

A classy getaway on the west side of the Delmarva Peninsula, Easton is set inland, but linked to the Chesapeake Bay by a tangle of rivers and creeks. The town was officially founded in 1710, but goes back further, as you’ll see at the Third Haven Friends Meeting House, standing since the 1680s and still …