Concord Museum

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I'll never forget going into the Yorktown museum shortly before I was fired for not taking the covid shot. I walked in to look at arms carried by our forefathers to shoot tyrants with, while being constantly told that masks were mandatory.

I did not wear one.

It was quite striking to me that the very people managing these artifacts would have likely been run out in the 1770's for being Tories.

Its too bad we can't yet return these beautiful arms displayed to their original purpose.
 
So 3,000 Americans faced 1,700 police state Democrats from Britain and between them they killed two dozen of themselves. They appeared to fight over climate change and taxes or maybe the British wanted to protect the rights of pedophiles and sexual deviants while encouraging Mexicans to invade and apply for welfare.

They'll have it revised a bit more next time. Nice displays, just don't read the text. Out west we are renaming everything from evil white people to drunken Indians.
 
Thanks for posting up this thread and earlier ones showing us a bit of your local history. Well, it's our history, but it's much more local and immediate to you. I've never been to New England and chances are I never will as I despise flying commercial since Sept. 11 and it's more of a drive than I want to tackle in my 65th year on this rock, so your photos and narrative provide probably the best impression I'll ever get of the area.

Question for you if you have some insight: up in post #36 you say that section of the road is little changed since the battle, but how about the surrounding environment? Would there have been similar forest growth back then? Maybe more old growth? Maybe less due to clearing for the more intensive agriculture of that time? Just wondering how to accurately picture the conditions in which the two sides engaged.
 
So 3,000 Americans faced 1,700 police state Democrats from Britain and between them they killed two dozen of themselves. They appeared to fight over climate change and taxes or maybe the British wanted to protect the rights of pedophiles and sexual deviants while encouraging Mexicans to invade and apply for welfare.

They'll have it revised a bit more next time. Nice displays, just don't read the text. Out west we are renaming everything from evil white people to drunken Indians.
Don’t forget keeping the damn Canadians out.

Sorry, Sean.

Sirhr
 
Thanks for posting up this thread and earlier ones showing us a bit of your local history. Well, it's our history, but it's much more local and immediate to you. I've never been to New England and chances are I never will as I despise flying commercial since Sept. 11 and it's more of a drive than I want to tackle in my 65th year on this rock, so your photos and narrative provide probably the best impression I'll ever get of the area.

Question for you if you have some insight: up in post #36 you say that section of the road is little changed since the battle, but how about the surrounding environment? Would there have been similar forest growth back then? Maybe more old growth? Maybe less due to clearing for the more intensive agriculture of that time? Just wondering how to accurately picture the conditions in which the two sides engaged.

The old road in dirt parallels a newer road that was put in to service Hanscom AFB.

There are two houses of older vintage 30's or earlier still there. I think the Park buys when the owner is deceased.

There is a Rev War period house up a bit further from where I stopped. The original gravel road bed curves left in a more east direction than turns back due east where there were some sharp engagements.

I have seen pictures from the fifties showing these original road sections untouched by the modern traffic ways.

When you get further west the modern road was built on the ancient road. You now ride asphalt into Concord.

I am thinking there were very few trees back than and the stone walls in the midst of the woods attest to that.

The building of Hanscom AFB probably did the most to change the character of the land.

I live in Arlington, formerly Menotomy, where the days most death and destruction reigned. Little in Arlington has been preserved. Lexington also save for some houses has little to allow you to think of what it was like at the time of the battle.

I remember my first time walking the Battle Road thinking I would find musket balls all over. I was probably 5-6 yoa.

From Lincoln to about half way to Concord the park has done a great job restoring the road. sucks many of the period houses existed into the 20th century but they eventually succumbed to fire and all that remains is the outline of the foundation walls at grade.

The Brit graves are still there and now there is forest where there was none.

Concord Bridge is still pretty well preserved landscape wise.
 
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So the militiamen harrasing the British were likely taking cover behind those stone walls and the odd rock or tree left standing. Thanks for the additional info.