Cultural Wonders

Historic Deerfield is a museum dedicated to the heritage and preservation of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and history of the Connecticut River Valley.

Named to honor a long tradition of poets being drawn to the spot, Poet’s Seat Tower sits on a 190 million year old (early Jurassic period) 150-foot thick basalt lava flow.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

The Montague Book Mill has 25,000 books jammed into a 175-year-old building perched on the banks of the Sawmill River, a narrow creek filled with black stones smoothed by the cold water.