Loyalists and Revolutionaries: Two Iconic Lincoln Properties at the Heart of a Changing World *** Monday, April 21, 2025 (Patriots’ Day Holiday) *** *** 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM *** Historic New England invites you walk Lincoln’s trails and visit two of its properties in Lincoln, Massachusetts: à The Codman Estate, home to five generations […]

Commemorate Patriots’ Day with a National Park Service program marking the “shot heard round the world.”

Join the Lexington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and members of the Lexington Minutemen Company at a Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Revolutionary War Memorial on the Battle Green which honors the 8 lives lost in the Battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775.

🎉 Patriotic Picnic in the Park – Celebrate History, Community, and Freedom under the Open Sky REGISTRATION & MEAL ORDER FORM Close out a momentous weekend honoring the first shot of the American Revolution with the Lex250 Patriotic Picnic in the Park on Monday, April 21, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 2:30 PM at Hastings […]

Every year on Patriot’s Day, the National Lancers reenact the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes. Paul Revere leaves on horseback from the North End, Boston and William Dawes on horseback leaves from John Elliot Square, 10 Putnam St., Roxbury, warning the people while on their way to Lexington of the pending arrival of […]

About 400 people are buried in Westlawn Cemetery, primarily from the 1700s and 1800s, many of whom were members of Westford’s First Parish Church. It is the final resting place for many of the town’s founders, veterans, industrialists, and farmers, with notable family names like Prescott, Robinson, and Fletcher. Colonel John Robinson (1735-1805) is the […]