ALONG THE BATTLE ROAD—THE HARTWELL FARM IN LINCOLN
The route of the British from Lexington to Concord led through the town of Lincoln along a wooded highway. It was at a bend in this road, about two o’clock in the morning, that the midnight ride of Paul Revere ended. In company with William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott, Paul Revere was halted by a British patrol. Dawes escaped, as did Dr. Prescott, who went on to give the alarm at Concord, but Revere was arrested and taken back to Lexington. There he was released, and later joined John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
The Samuel Hartwell house, now known as the Hartwell Farm, is one of the survivors along the Battle Road. Past its front door the red-coated Grenadiers matched with smart precision on the morning of April 19th. They returned in the afternoon, with broken ranks and no semblance of military order, harassed by the minutemen. One Grenadier pushed his broken musket through a window of the house and left it there, and several fired bullets into its boarded facade.
Farmhouse along the Battle Road
The Farm at Meriam’s Corner
MERIAM’S CORNER, CONCORD
The first point of interest encountered in Concord marks, not the British approach but their retreat, after the rout at North Bridge. Here, at Meriam’s Corner, the minutemen who had fought at the bridge were joined by embattled farmers from Sudbury, Framingham and other neighboring towns. From all sides they poured fire on the retreating Regulars, finally driving them all the way to Boston.