5. Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

 The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum is located in an 1840 Gothic revival style house. Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci was a 19th-century Italian-American inventor. He is credited with having invented the telephone (16 years before Alexander Graham Bell). Between 1850 and 1854, Giuseppe Garibaldi, one of the founders of Itay, lived with Meucci and his wife in the house. In 1956, the house, a National Landmark, opened to the public. It is owned and operated by the Order Sons of Italy in America.

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