Cultural Landscapes Inventory: North Bridge
2006. Cultural Landscapes Inventory: North Bridge. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Minute Man National Historical Park protects 970 acres in and around the Massachusetts towns of Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord, commemorating the opening battle in the American Revolutionary War. This Cultural Landscapes Inventory concerns the North Bridge area of Minute Man National Historical Park. The North Bridge Unit is one of three discontinuous park units within Minute Man National Historical Park. The Unit is located eighteen miles northwest of Boston in Concord, Massachusetts and consists of 114.01 acres. The central landscape feature is the North Bridge. On April 19, 1775, colonial militia and minutemen engaged British Regulars at the North Bridge during the “first forcible resistance” to “British aggression,” the day that marked the beginning of the American Revolution.
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 2006
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- MIMA , NER
- Keywords
- Battle Road, North Bridge, Revolutionary War