Old Sturbridge Village is the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast, recreating a rural New England town from the 1830s with over 40 original buildings, a working farm, and costumed historians demonstrating 19th-century life, crafts, and trades like printing, pottery, and tinsmithing. Visitors can explore homes, a school, a country store, and mills, experiencing daily life from the Early Republic era through interactive exhibits and demonstrations.