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Northwest of Boston is Lexington, where the first footage of the Revolutionary War took place on April 19, 1775. The Minuteman statue by sculptor Henry Hudson Kitson and the Battle Green monument where members of the colonial militia (called miniatunes for their battle readiness per minute of notice) clashed with British forces.
The Miniten and their commander, Captain Parker, gathered in 1710 at Buckman’s Tavern before meeting the British and its interior, preserved as it did in the 18th century, complemented by an original two feet ten feet wide fireplace. The old front door still has holes in the British musket ball. Munro’s Tavern, built in the early 1690s, became a field hospital for the wounded and contains period artifacts and furniture. The Hancock-Clark House contains the temporary furniture of the Clark family and the Reverend John Hancock, the grandfather of the signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
