Rye History Trolley Tour Sponsored by RE/MAX RISING TIDE | Madden Group

Welcome & thank you for joining us today as we celebrate Memorial Day. Special thanks belong to our sponsor RE/MAX RISING TIDE | Madden Group for the 2023 RHS historic trolley tours. This tour introduces riders to experience many important locations in Rye, featuring locations relevant from a historic and current viewpoint.

In the year 2023, Rye celebrates 400 years of development since the first European settlement. Sit back & enjoy a glimpse into Rye’s rich history and environment through farming, fishing, tourism and civic life.

The tour, with ongoing historical narration, will leave the museum and proceed up Washington Road to Brown Lane Farm, work its way down to Rye Beach, before heading up the coast on Ocean Blvd. to Odiorne Point, and back to the museum via Sagamore, Wallis, Brackett and Washington Roads. There are many pullovers with narration including Rye Harbor, and the old trolley barn, as well as opportunities to disembark at St. Andrew's Church, the Drake House, and Odiorne graveyard and salt marsh overlook. The tour will end at The Rye Town Museum.

Participants will board trolley at 9:45 a.m.

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