Featuring American history, and culture exhibits (17th - 18th Century). Specializing in local history and heritage. Highlights include the preserved seventeenth-century American home.
Activities: Tours
Open from 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Closed on Sunday, Monday)
The beautiful natural setting of the Benjamin Nye Homestead & Museum surrounded by several other 18th century colonial homes makes it unique. The house was built by Benjamin Nye, one of the first fifty men to settle in Sandwich. Given permission by the town to erect a mill by the stream from his pond, Benjamin Nye built one of the first grist mills in the country in 1669. Later he also built a fulling mill nearby, and his home by 1681.