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Patriots' Grave in the Old Burying Ground cemetery, Arlington, Massachusetts Patriots' Day (Patriot's Day in Maine) [1] is an annual event, formalized as a legal holiday or a special observance day in six U.S. states, commemorating the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Menotomy, the inaugural battles of the American Revolutionary War.
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 battles were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge. They marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Patriot militias from America's thirteen colonies .
More men fell at the Foot of the Rocks and on the plains of Menotomy than in every other locale through which the adversary forces fought, that long day, April 19, 1775." [ 2 ] 5,100 men from eastern Middlesex County and southern Essex County gathered in Menotomy to meet the retreating British troops on their way to Boston from Concord .
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 ...
Concord (/ ˈ k ɒ ŋ k ər d /) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.In the 2020 census, the town population was 18,491. [2] The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston.
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 ...
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.