Fruitlands Museum
Fruitlands Museum is a museum in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 90 m. North Peak stands 192 m to the south, 3.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Prospect Hill, a peak 0.1 miles away. Battle Road Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.
The story
Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, is a museum about multiple visions of America on the site of the short-lived utopian community, Fruitlands. The museum includes the Fruitlands farmhouse (a National Historic Landmark), a museum about Shaker life, an art gallery with 19th-century landscape paintings, vernacular American portraits, and other changing exhibitions, and a museum of Native American history. In 2023, readers of USA Today voted to name Fruitlands as one of the ten best history museums in the United States. Visitors can tour the farmhouse, which has been restored to appear as it did during the 1840s, and exhibits about Transcendentalism and the Alcott family. Fruitlands offers a diverse schedule of contemporary exhibits, lectures, outdoor concerts and easy walking trails. There is also a museum store and restaurant. The properties are overseen by The Trustees of Reservations.
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Dates from 1914.
Wikidata Q5506454, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 90 m
What to expect
- Access
- Customers only
How to reach it
- 13.2 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 20.5 mi off the Lost Villages Scenic Byway
- 24.9 mi off the The Apple Way of Londonderry
- 28.4 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Prospect Hill: 0.1 mi
- Dean's Hill: 0.6 mi
- Pin Hill South: 1.3 mi
- Pin Hill North: 1.4 mi
- Treasury Hill: 1.9 mi
- Pumunangwet, He Who Soots the Stars: 0.3 mi
- Wo Peen, The Dreamer: 0.3 mi
- Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio: 4.1 mi
- The Olympic Bell: 4.1 mi
- "Johnny Ro": 6.0 mi
- Native Herb Garden: 0.3 mi
- Ayer Community Garden: 3.7 mi
- Colonial Herb Garden: 4.4 mi
- Flerra Meadows Community Garden Boxborough: 4.9 mi
- Morning Glory Farm: 5.9 mi
- Dean's Hill Conservation Restriction: 0.6 mi
- W Smith Land & Tufts Land 2: 0.6 mi
- Carey Land: 0.7 mi
- Prospect Hill (Newman Land): 0.8 mi
- Horne Land: 0.8 mi
- Colin Campbell Fay Memorial Bench: 1.0 mi
- Brother's Shop: 3.1 mi
- Brother's Shop: 3.1 mi
- Shaker Stone Barn: 3.2 mi
- Old Parsonage: 3.3 mi
- Harvard Historical Society: 1.0 mi
- West School Museum: 5.8 mi
- The Icon Museum and Study Center: 7.2 mi
- Hosmer House Museum: 8.4 mi
- Discovery Museum: 8.4 mi
- Ryan Field: 1.0 mi
- Town Beach: 1.4 mi
- Mirror Lake: 1.5 mi
- Harvard Park: 2.3 mi
- Whitley Park: 3.3 mi
- Clinton Tunnel - East Entrance: 7.7 mi
- Clinton Tunnel - West Entrance: 7.8 mi
- Log Chair: 8.0 mi
- Big Green Monster Hedge Maze: 8.0 mi
- Wachusett Dam: 8.0 mi
- Harvard Town Beach: 1.3 mi
- Thurston's Beach: 1.7 mi
- Bolton Town Beach: 5.7 mi
- Wilder Beach: 7.9 mi
- Lunenburg Town Beach: 8.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Family Friendly Area (Multi-use): 13.0 mi
- Trap Falls: 14.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
- Picnic Site 2: 19.7 mi
- Old Limestone Quarry: 8.6 mi
- Sawyer Bluff: 10.5 mi
- Scar Hill Bluffs: 12.0 mi
- Farmers Cliff: 12.6 mi
- Falling Rock Ridge: 13.8 mi
- Cascades: 10.2 mi
- Emerson Falls: 12.2 mi
- Trap Falls: 14.4 mi
- The Falls: 16.6 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 18.1 mi
- Mystery Spring: 11.4 mi
- The Ashburnham Spring: 17.8 mi
- Johnny Appleseed Visitor Information Center: 4.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.0 miles of Fruitlands Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Peak | S 185° | 192 m | 3.0 mi |
| Legate Hill | W 259° | 192 m | 6.9 mi |
| Oak Hill | E 91° | 187 m | 2.7 mi |
| Oak Hill | ENE 76° | 187 m | 3.3 mi |
| Wekepeke Hill | WSW 254° | 187 m | 6.8 mi |
| Jocelyn Hill | WNW 295° | 180 m | 6.0 mi |
| Peach Hill | SSW 193° | 180 m | 6.9 mi |
| Wataquadock Hill | S 191° | 173 m | 4.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:22 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:10 | 19:45 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:34 | 18:09 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:31 | 16:17 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 51 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fitchburg Muni AP, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/29782810
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