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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC1Y_the-north-bridge_Concord-MA.html
Minute Man National Historical Park was the starting place of the American Revolution: here the resolve of citizens willing to risk their lives for the ideals of liberty and self-determination was instrumental in the formation of the American iden…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBXR_captain-david-brown-house-site_Concord-MA.html
Here on this site lived the Brown family of Concord, who arrived from England in 1644. The exposed foundation on you left is from the first Brown family home. During the 1750s, their descendent David Brown constructed a new house. On your right, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBXP_the-road-to-colonel-barretts_Concord-MA.html
In 1775 you would be standing at a fork on the Groton Road. The east fork, restored by the National Park Service, today leads up the hill to the Visitor Center. The west fork, now traced as a mown path, led to Colonel Barrett's farm over a mile aw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBXN_the-muster-field_Concord-MA.html
"Will you let them burn the town down?"Lt. Joseph Hosmer of Concord "I haven't a man who's afraid to go."Captain Isaac Davis of Acton "Do not fire on the King's troops unless first fired upon."Colonel James Barrett of Concord In the field…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBX2_major-john-buttrick-house_Concord-MA.html
Here was the home of the Colonial officer who led the advance to the North Bridge. With British soldiers firing directly at his men, Major John Buttrick gave the order, "Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake, fire!" It was the first time that Colo…
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Major John Buttrickfrom this, his farm, ledthe Provincial MinuteMen and Militia downto win the bridge heldby the British forcesApril 19, 1775 George Edward Messerby his will providedthis memorialerected by the town
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWZ_the-milldam_Concord-MA.html
This short stretch of street still known as the milldam was the site of an Indian fishing weir and was laid out along the dam built soon after the settlement of the town in 1635.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWY_jethros-tree_Concord-MA.html
Near this spot stood the ancient oak known as Jethro's Tree beneath which Major Simon Willard and his associates bought from the Indians the "6 myles of land square" ordered by the General Court for the Plantation of Concord September 12, 1635.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWX_british-soldier_Concord-MA.html
19 April 1775Near this site was burieda British soldier of the4th the King's Own Regt. of Footfatally wounded at North Bridge
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBU7_house-and-farm-of-colonel-james-barrett_Concord-MA.html
House and Farm ofColonel James Barrett.Commanding Officerof the Middlesex Militia On the morning of April 19, 1775, the British march from Boston which resulted in the outbreak of the Revolutionary War ended here with a search for military sto…
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