Edgartown Walking Tour: Historic Sights & Stories

Explore Martha’s Vineyard on a self-guided historic walking tour. Discover iconic sights, secret gems, and fascinating stories of settlers, whaling, ghosts, and more!

Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Dr. Daniel Fisher House - The tour starts outside of the Dr. Daniel Fisher house, the historic house tells the story of Martha’s Vineyard and it’s whaling story. The tour will then guide you step by step through Edgartown telling you it’s history.
What's Included
  • Tour on our walking tour app in Edgartown Martha’s Vineyard
  • The tour never expires take it anytime
What's Not Included
  • No Food, Drink or admission tickets, this is all outside and navigated by your phone (app)
Additional Information

Explore at your leisure, whenever you want! It’s your personalized journey. During our historical walk through Edgartown, you will discover symbolic landmarks and hidden treasures - from the whaling church and ancient structures, to underground railroad stops, the Carnegie library, Jaws film locations, the lighthouse, and much more.
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Location
Vineyard Preservation Trust
Main Street
The tour starts outside of 99 Main St, Edgartown, MA 02539, on the sidewalk outside the house, you’ll see the White House and gazebo on the left.. The historic house tells the story of Martha's Vineyard and its whaling story. The tour guides you step by step through Edgartown telling you the history
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Lorrie
Oct 1, 2025
Beautiful - Easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Lots of valuable information. Never knew any of this before. Beautiful city. Appreciate the safety reminders
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Debbie_h
Sep 21, 2025
Informative - Easy to follow and informative Interesting route and good stops. Mixture of history and film info from Jaws
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Jerry_c
Sep 15, 2025
Well narrated.... - Well narrated. Interesting tour. I’d recommended. Especially like the details on Walking directions.
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Howard_k
Sep 2, 2025
This leisurely paced tour... - This leisurely paced tour is available on your phone, and is easy to manage, with ample opportunities to pause, or go back. Nice mix of old and newer history of Edgartown!
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Leerq1286ln
Jul 28, 2024
Awesome - Very interesting information. Timing was perfect for getting from 1 place to the next. The estimated distance and therefore time was way off. The distance was more like 2 miles plus and therefore. needed more time.
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Thomas_c
Jun 29, 2024
Self guided fun - This was fun. The self guided tour worked out great because we had the ability to pause the tour and explore further on our own. Very informative and up to date.
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Meander719934
Jun 6, 2024
Educational and entertaining - We loved this tour! We especially liked that it enabled us to be on a flexible time schedule and it was affordable. The host was informative and entertaining. :) Thank you!!
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Leslie_l
Jun 4, 2024
Nice Day in Edgartown - I liked hearing and seeing about the locations that were used in the filming of Jaws. Seafood Shanty recommendation was spot on…Delicious! It is a lot of walking and drained our phone batteries
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Lyndal
Oct 26, 2025
Needed a bit more history. - It was a really disappointing tour. Paul was more interested in telling us about real estate. I think he totally forgets about the people down the back of the bus. We were a group of 4 from Australia was hoping for more information about the history about Matha’s Vineyard.
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Bob_b
Jun 27, 2024
Watch your schedule carefully - Our plane was delayed and we could not make the tour. Text to operators requesting to reschedule was ignored. Poor customer service.
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From $10
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).