How much do you really know about the start of our great nation? Here are a few pictures and facts you might be interested in.
Lexington, Ma park. Site of the first battle of the Revolutionary War.
Old Belfry, Lexington, Massachusetts. You can hear the bell in Concord 7 miles away.
Louisa Mat Alcott’s Orchard House Concord
Old Manse House located next to Old North Bridge. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s house. Thoreau and Emerson both lived there, too.
Old North Bridge. Site of the second battle of the Revolutionary War. To the left, out of site is the burial place of two British Soldiers. Straight ahead and slightly to the right is the home of Col Barnett, who stockpiled arms for the Minutemen.
Graves of first British casualties of the war.
Col Barnett’s House. Only the foundation still survives.
Bunker Hill. No battle took place there.
Breed’s Hill. Colonial forces were trying to take control of Bunker Hill at night, but walked right by it and they actually occupied Breed’s Hill instead.
Constitution Hall. Meeting place of the first Continental Congress. Declaration of Independence signed here.
The original Declaration of Independence was written on parchment. (made from stretched animal skin) There are 26 paper copies that were made later that night, known as the Dunlap Broadside. The copies were made so messengers could travel city to city and read them in the town square.
The battle of Yorktown was the decisive battle of the war in 1783.
The Constitution of the United States. Written in 1786, it was not ratified until 1789.
george Washington’s inaugural address in 1789.