Walking on the Old North Bridge over the Concord River toward the Colonial side and the Barrett House. Battle Road, April 19, 1775, the start of the War for Independence,
@95thFoot Absolutely correct regarding the writer of the words engraved on the obelisk! In my unrehearsed narration when shooting the video, I muddled this piece with Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride. Mea culpa.
@95thFoot Absolutely correct regarding the writer of the words engraved on the obelisk! In my unrehearsed narration when shooting the video, I muddled this piece with Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride. Mea culpa.
GentlemanTony 6 months ago
The poem on the statue is a verse from "The Concord Hymn", not by Longfellow, but by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Col. Barrett's house is about a mile or so further from the bridge.
The house up on the hill overlooking the bridge is the Stedman Buttrick House, built in 1911. No colonial supplies there in 1775.
95thFoot 7 months ago