2024 Season Walking Tours
2025 Walking Tours starting in June!
February 2nd & 16th, 2025 – Winter Walk: From Falmouth with Love
May 25th to October 18th, 2024 – Tours Available on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Please check out our Calendar page for more events.
Try our free family-friendly scavenger hunt the next time you’re near the Falmouth Village Green: VG Scavenger Booklet.pdf
Routes Will Vary – Our Current Schedule is listed below.
Start Time: Tours depart promptly at 10:30am, unless otherwise noted
Meeting Place: Hallett Barn Visitors Center.* Please arrive by 10:15 am.
Saturdays – Village Green: Famous Residents, Falmouth Firsts, Favorite Spots
Learn about several famous Falmouth citizens, see a house full of Falmouth Firsts, and visit one of Falmouth’s favorite places.
Mondays – Locust Street: Home to Many Mariners
This walk focuses on the homes, adventures, and families of several whaling captains, along with the original settlement area of Falmouth, local soldiers from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, and the old town burying ground.
Tuesdays – Depot Ave.
Falmouth’s maritime past is proudly remembered, but there’s more to the history of our town. When the railroad arrived in 1871, Falmouth’s link to the world shifted from the sea to the rails. Trains brought visitors and freight to town multiple times daily. A bustling commercial zone arose, centered around the hub of the train station on Depot Ave. Join us as we explore this aspect of Falmouth’s industrial past and how it led to discussions over zoning and development that we live with today. Along the way, you’ll also see lovely examples of late 19th and early 20th century homes built by Cape Codders who gave up seafaring and prospered in professions like insurance, hospitality, and retail.
Fridays – Rotating between Grave Undertakings, Scandals and Women’s History.
Women’s History – 10:30am
This walking tours delves into the less familiar history of Falmouth as we introduce you to a few of the notable women who made – and continue to make – their mark in Falmouth. Along the way, you will meet educators, abolitionists, suffragettes and storytellers. The tour features their stories and will give you new insight into the history of Falmouth.
Scandals – 10:30am
Are there ever any “things that are best forgotten?” Perhaps, but we believe that revisiting past scandals can remind us that history was just real life before it was written down. This new walking tour covers the shadier side of local history, from petty feuds and social spats to serious crimes of robbery and murder. You’ll discover eleven events that really happened, but are rarely mentioned in published histories of our town. For instance, we will tell you about a colonial minister who desperately wanted a divorce, a town official caught with counterfeit money, and an unsolved murder that may have been committed by Prohibition-era gangsters.
Old Burying Ground: Grave Undertakings* 5:30pm
From the most respected minister to the lowliest outcast, everyone in Falmouth ended up here eventually. See their markers and hear their stories as our tour guide leads you through this hidden gem of a cemetery.
* The Old Burying Ground tour meets at the top of Cemetery Lane.
NOTE: Please park in the 300 Committee lot at 157 Locust Street. Use the crosswalk to cross Locust St. and head towards the large boulder of the Mariners’ Memorial. Opposite the Memorial, across Mill Rd., join your tour guide at the top of Cemetery Lane.
Please REGISTER HERE in advance for Old Burying Ground tour.
