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Historic Deerfield (Visit this link)

Historic Deerfield was incorporated in 1952, to sustain the work of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Flynt, of Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1936, the Flynts enrolled their
son at Deerfield Academy, a nationally known college prep school founded in
1797, located in the center village of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The Flynts were
amazed at the remarkable, but fragile, state of preservation of the old village.
With the encouragement of Deerfield Academy's Headmaster, Frank Boyden, they
began to purchase the old houses along the street to carefully restore them.



Today, 13 museum houses, built between 1730 and 1850, and the Flynt Center of
Early New England Life display more than 25,000 objects made or used in America
between 1650 and 1850. It is the quality of this collection, the meticulously
preserved 18th and 19th century houses in which it is displayed, and the old
village itself that make Historic Deerfield the New England that all travellers
hope to find.

http://www.historic-deerfield.org