Rye History Trolley Tour

Welcome & thank you for joining us today as we celebrate the Fourth of July. This tour introduces riders to experience many important locations in Rye, featuring locations relevant from a historic and current viewpoint.

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.