"Here once the embattled farmers stood" - Emerson  Trip Start
Feb 15, 2010 Trip End Feb 14, 2011  Loading Map Map your own
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Saturday, April 24, 2010  Today I made a visit to a site that
holds a great deal of significance to the history of our
country.  I went to the Minuteman National Historical Park which
extends between the cities of Lexington and Concord.   The park
stretches through the fields and woods along five miles of dirt
road that was named "Battle Road."  The road leads all the way
to the North Bridge near Concord where the legendary shot was
fired.  This, of course, was not the first shot fired by the
British or Colonists, but the words were made immortal in Ralph
Waldo Emerson's poem, "Concord Hymn."  What Emerson was most
likely referring to was the fact that on that day, on that
bridge, it was the first time that a colonial militia had been
given an official order to open f