| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1660 - 1725 | | A succession of conflicts transforms indigenous/ colonial relations. | A map from the 1704 Deerfield website shows the colonial Northeast, c, 1660-1725. | Indian war |
| 1704 | | Deerfield Massacre | A winter raid resulted in the deaths or captivities of three-fifths of the town's inhabitants. The attacking force included men from Odanak and Schaghiticoke, where many New England refugees had gathered after King Philip's War. | Indians, French, frontier, captivity" Philip |
| 1770 |  | Copley paints Paul Revere | Copley's painting and many examples of Revere's silver can be seen at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. | |
| 1824 | | Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth | | |
| 1825 | | Connecticut Historical Society founded | | Connecticut, museums |
| 1835 | | Rhode Island Historical Society collects materials from Indian graves. | This is only one example of New England museums accessioning grave goods, bones, and hair from burial sites deliberately or accidentally disturbed. | museums, bones, Indians |
| 1842 | | Wadsworth Atheneum opens in Hartford | Considered the nation's first public art museum. | Connecticut, museum |
| 1866 | | Peabody Museum founded at Harvard | | |
| 1868 | | Deerfield first exhibits door from "Indian House" | | Deerfield massacre, museum |
| 1869 | | American Museum of Natural History founded in New York | | |
| 1869 | | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association founded in Deerfield, Massachusetts | | museum |
| 1870 | | Boston Museum of Fine Arts founded | | |
| 1870 | | Metropolitan Museum of Art founded in New York | | |
| 1880 | | Memorial Hall dedicated in Deerfield | A battered door from the so-called "Indian house" was a prominent feature. | Deerfield, museum, Indian |
| 1881 | | Nantucket's Coffin House restored | | maritime, museum, summer |
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| 1887 | | Ellen Rounds repairs the "Damm Garrison" | In 1915, she donated it to Dover, New Hampshire's new "Woodman Institute." | Indian wars, door, museum |
| 1900 | | Old Gaol opened in York, Maine | | museum |
| 1901 | | Maine Historical Society opens Wadsworth-Longfellow House | | museum |
| 1903 | | New Bedford Whaling Museum founded | | maritime |
| 1905 |  | Paul Revere House saved from demolition | The house, which was in an immigrant neighborhood, was reinvented as an early colonial dwelling. It is still open to the public. | museum |
| 1907 | | Period rooms opened in Essex Institute | | museum |
| 1908 | | House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded | | witch, Salem, museum, immigration |
| 1926 | | John D. Rockefeller funds Colonial Williamburg in Virginia | | museum |
| 1928 | | A New York surgeon founds the Abbe Museum on Mount Desert Island, Maine | While summering in Bar Harbor, Dr. Abbe was fascinated by the ancient Native American tools found in nearby shell heaps. As he began collecting these artifacts, he realized the need for safe permanent storage. | |
| 1929 | | Henry Ford funds Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan | | museum |
| 1930 | | Nantucket Whaling Museum opened | | maritime |
| 1930 | | Mystic Seaport maritime museum begins operation | | |
| 1931 | | Gladys Tantaquidgeon (1899-2005) founds the Tantaguidgeon Museum at Mohegan. | | Mohegan, Indians |
| 1931 | | Grant Wood paints :The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere | | |
| 1935 | | Wells Historical Museum (precurser to Old Sturbridge Village) open | Read Jack Larkin and Mark Ashton, "Celebrating 50 Years of History" on the museum Web site. | |
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| 1935 | | Harold Tantaquidge reconstructs a Mohegan village | | museum |
| 1942 | | Farmer's Museum in Cooperstown, New York established | | |
| 1947 | | Shelburne Museum established | | |
| 1947 | | Old Sturbridge Village created | | museum |
| 1947 | | Plimoth Plantation founded | | museum |
| 1952 | | Historic Deerfield founded | | museum |
| 1958 | | Strawbery Banke Museum opens in Portsmouth, NH | In 1957 Dorothy M. Vaughan, Portsmouth librarian, was invited to address the local Rotary Club. As she later recalled, 'I decided to lay it right on the line, and tell them what Portsmouth was throwing away each time a house was torn down or a piece of furniture was sold out of town.' Almost before she had finished, a committee was created to see what could be done to save Portsmouth's heritage. The result was a radical new combination of urban renewal and historic preservation. The Puddle Dock neighborhood was to be saved as a historic museum. | |
| 1987 | | Archaeologists begin excavating historic sites threatened by Boston's Big Dig. | Some of the artifacts recovered, including "North America's Oldest Bowling Ball" are on exhibit at the Commonwealth Museum. An interactive website shows the location of the Big Dig in relation to Boston geography as it changed over time.
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| 1998 | | Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center Opens | | Indian |
| 2001 | | Peabody Museum at Harvard continues to repatriate human remains | Check the Harvard website for additional stories on NAGPRA | bones Indians |
| 2002 | | Church at Mohegan restored and museum installed. | | Indians |
| 2004 | | Memorial Hall Museum launches new website on "The Many Stories of 1704 | | |
