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The towns of Concord and Lexington, Massachusetts, are the site of Minute Man National Historical Park, a park governed by the National Park Service. [1] The most highly attended event in the park is the annual reenactment of the first shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, [2] performed by the Lexington Minute Men Company and His Majesty's Tenth Regiment of Foot.
The Lexington–Concord commemorative stamps were the first of many commemoratives issued to honor the 150th anniversaries of events that surrounded America's War of Independence. The three stamps were first placed on sale in Washington, D.C., and in five Massachusetts cities and towns that played major roles in the Lexington and Concord story ...
The Lexington Battle Green is known for being the site of the Battle of Lexington, where the "shot heard round the world" was fired. A statue of the captain of the Lexington Militia, John Parker, stands on the Battle Green. The statue is known as the Minuteman Statue by locals. A historical reenactment of the Battle of Lexington takes place on ...
Arlington, Concord, Lexington and Lincoln, collectively known as the Battle Road Towns, are all working together to coordinate the public safety portion and transportation and to ensure less ...
The North Bridge, often colloquially called the Old North Bridge, is a historic site in Concord, Massachusetts, spanning the Concord River.On April 19, 1775, the first day of the American Revolutionary War, provincial minutemen and militia companies numbering approximately 400 engaged roughly 90 British Army troops at this location.
Battle Road, formerly known as the Old Concord Road and the Bay Road, is a historic road in Massachusetts, United States. It was formerly part of the main road connecting Lexington , Lincoln and Concord , [ 2 ] three of the main towns involved in the American Revolutionary War .
The Stow-Hardy House is a historic American Revolutionary War site associated with the revolution's first battle, the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord.It stands, on the site of a previous home built around 1689, on Lexington Road in Concord, Massachusetts, just southwest of the former Battle Road.
The Jason Russell House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts, where at least twenty-one colonial combatants died [1] fighting on the first day of the American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 (the Battles of Lexington and Concord). The house was purchased in 1923 by the Arlington Historical Society which restored it in 1926, and now ...