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The tavern was built in about 1709–1710 by Benjamin Muzzey (1657–1735), and with license granted in 1693 was the first public house in Lexington. Muzzey ran it for years, then his son John, and then at the time of the battle it was run by John's granddaughter and her husband John Buckman, a member of the Lexington Training Band.
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Hancock St., on the eastern side of Lexington Green 42°26′57″N 71°13′49″W / 42.449167°N 71.230278°W / 42.449167; -71.230278 ( Buckman National Historic Landmark
The Depot is available for rental by Lexington community groups, residents and businesses. The Society manages three nationally historic house museums: the Hancock–Clarke House , Paul Revere's Lexington destination; Buckman Tavern , the gathering place of the Lexington militia on April 19, 1775; and Munroe Tavern , temporary British field ...
Other landmarks of historical importance include the Old Burying Ground (with gravestones dating back to 1690), the Old Belfry, Buckman Tavern (c. 1704 –1710), Munroe Tavern (c. 1695), the Hancock–Clarke House (1737), the U.S.S. Lexington Memorial, the Centre Depot (old Boston and Maine train station, today the headquarters of the town ...
The Lexington Battle Green, also known as Lexington Common, is the historic town common of Lexington, Massachusetts, United States. It was at this site that the opening shots of the Battles of Lexington and Concord were fired on April 19, 1775, starting the American Revolutionary War. Now a public park, the common is a National Historic Landmark.
The tavern's ownership passed to the Hartwells' son, John. [2] The tavern continued to be a residence up until its purchase by the National Park Service in 1967. Over the years that followed, the building was modernized and changed. [1] In the 1980s, the Park Service restored it to its 1775 appearance, yet kept its 1783 and 1830 additions.