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Heritage Museums & Gardens, founded as Heritage Plantation of Sandwich by Josiah K. Lilly III, opened to the public in 1969 on a former Cape Cod estate. Its military museum was created to display the collection of antique firearms and military miniatures assembled by his father, Josiah K. Lilly Jr., and holds thousands of objects, including uniforms spanning the American Revolution to World War II.
Heritage Plantation Military Museum is a museum in Sandwich, Barnstable County. It is one of 16 museums documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.
The site sits at 41.7470, -70.5044 near Sandwich. The nearest cataloged historic site is Heritage Plantation Arts and Crafts Center (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Dexter, Charles O. Estate - Shawme Farm, Wing - Dexter House, and Heritage Plantation Windmill.
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The military museum is one of the exhibition buildings at Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts, which opened as Heritage Plantation in June 1969. The institution was founded by Josiah Kirby Lilly III, great-grandson of pharmaceutical founder Eli Lilly, as a tribute to his father, whose collection of antique firearms and military miniatures anchors the military museum. The 100-acre campus also includes an antique automobile collection, the Old East Mill, and renowned rhododendron gardens.
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