Battle Road: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Minute Man National Historical Park
Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation. 2025. Battle Road: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Minute Man National Historical Park. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 650037. National Park Service. NPS Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts / CRIS-CL Database
The Battle Road Unit is one of four discontinuous park units within Minute Man National Historical Park. The Unit is located sixteen miles northwest of Boston in the towns of Concord, Lincoln, and Lexington, Massachusetts and consists of approximately eight hundred acres. The linear-shaped unit includes four miles of the Battle Road, along which British Regulars fled under colonial fire on April 19, 1775, the opening day of the American Revolution. There are six component landscapes within the Battle Road landscape: Jones/Stow Farm, Meriam’s Corner, Brooks Farm, Hartwell Area, Nelson Farm Area, and Fiske Hill.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
- Date of Issue
- 2025
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- MIMA , NER
- Keywords
- Agriculture, American Revolution, April 19 1775, Archeology, Architecture, Battle Road Unit, Battle Site, Battlefield Preservation, Bloody Angle, Boston, British Regulars, Brooks Hill, Colonial Militia, Concord, Craftsman (1890-1915), Farming the Northeast, farmland, farmstead, Fiske Hill, Hartwell Farm, Historic Landscape Rehabilitiation, historic site, Lexington, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Meriam's Corner, Middlesex County, Military, Minutemen, monument, Native American, Nelson Farm, Paul Revere, Period Revivals (1870-1940), Post-Archaic and Prehistoric Developments, Revolutionary War, Samuel Prescott, stone walls, The Bluff, Thomas Gage, Vernacular Landscape, wayside exhibit, William Dawes