Minute Man NHP

After Walden Pond, we headed north to Minute Man National Historical Park. It's in pieces and cuts through Concord, Lincoln (I think) and Lexington. Concord and Lexington is, of course, considered the opening battles of the American Revolution. About 700 British army regulars were sent to Concord to take away the militia's supplies. Colonials tried to stop them at Lexington, but the Redcoats pushed west and met their match at Concord. This is where the westernmost part of the National Park site is located, at a place called North Bridge (you can see it in a few of my photos). The militia beat the Regulars back to Lexington and, with more and more reinforcements from the colonials, eventually all the way back to Boston.

Ralph Waldo Emerson immortalized the conflict at North Bridge as 'the shot heard 'round the world' in his Concord Hymn. Personally, I first knew about this place from the Schoolhouse Rock episode of the same name. God - those things were so damn great. Even then, I liked the American history ones more than the others.

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