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From Concord to Lexington on Massachusetts Route 2A 42°28′09″N 71°21′01″W / 42.4692°N 71.3504°W / 42.4692; -71.3504 ( Minute Man National Historical Boundary increase (added 2002-11-29): Lexington, MA
The Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District is an historic district in Concord, Massachusetts. Monument Square, at the center of the district, was laid out in 1635. The district includes a collection of well-preserved residential houses stretching along Lexington Street southeast from the square, and along Lowell northwest of ...
Meriam's Corner is a historic American Revolutionary War site associated with the revolution's first battle, the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord.It is located, on the former Battle Road, at the junction of today's Lexington Road and Old Bedford Road in Concord, Massachusetts, and is named for the Meriam family who lived there.
The battles of Lexington and Concord took form before dawn on April 19, 1775. Soldiers passed by the house on their way to Concord , and again on their way back to Boston . Paul Revere and William Dawes were detained by a British Army patrol nearby during the " Midnight Ride " to Concord of April 18.
Farwell took over the farm around 1760, a couple of years before his father's death. At the time of the battles of Lexington and Concord, his sister, Olive Stow, and her two children lived in the adjacent property to the east, now known as the Stow-Hardy House. [1] Farwell Jones married Hannah Hosmer in 1777. They had one child - a daughter ...
Laid out in 1635, it is now part of the Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District. [ 1 ] The square is prominently known as the site of British activities on April 19, 1775, the day of the battles of Lexington and Concord , which began the American Revolutionary War , and of earlier meetings by Massachusetts Patriots , which ...
The summit of the hill is around 600 yards (550 m) south of Route 2A; the Historical Area, meanwhile, is located around 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of Meriam's Corner in Concord, Massachusetts, immediately to the east (and across the Concord/Lincoln town line) of the Samuel Brooks House, on Lexington Road.
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.