Minute Man National Park
On numerous acres stretches Minute Man National Historical Park. As a Massachusetts resident, we have visited this park several times.
The park encompasses approximately 1,000 acres across the towns of Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord, preserving the landscape of April 19, 1775. This date was the opening day of the American Revolution. It was established as a National Historical Park in 1959, signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The park has two primary visitor centers that help tell the story.
The Lexington Visitor Center focuses on the early morning events on Lexington Green, where the first shots were fired. The North Bridge Visitor Center in Concord interprets the “shot heard round the world”. Here, colonial militia crossed the Old North Bridge and forced British troops to retreat. This action marked the first organized colonial resistance of the day.
The Minuteman National Park is a preserved landscape that includes open fields, the winding road and a river. This is where the Revolution began, on town greens and country roads.
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