Historic East Coast Day 3

What a beautiful day we had today.  We left the park at 8:00 AM for Lexington & Concord.  These places have a lot of history about the starting of the American Revolution.  I hope these pictures today give you a little bit about what we saw, the only problem is a couple of the museums did not allow pictures.
We arrived at Lexington were the fist shoot was heard around the world.  The only problem no one knows who fired the Red Coats or the Minute Men.  We had a great tour guide today and her name was Carole.  She told us all about what happened in this area.

This was our first stop after a hour plus of riding in the bus, the restrooms were great.

Right behind this area is were the British first ran into the Minute Man Freedom fighters.  There were 3 Minute Men killed and a number of them wounded, there were only 3 Red Coats wounded and this first battle lasted less then 5 minutes.  From here the Red Coats marched on to Concord looking for arms and powder that the Minute Men had hidden.  The Red Coats had left Boston in look for these supplies.  This is also the area the Paul Revere road through warning that the Red Coats were coming.  He was heading to Concord to warn Adams so that he could hide from the Red Coats.

This stone was just before the field behind the Minute Man.

Next we head towards the Minute Man National Historical Park.  This was about half way between the two city's.  This site is were the Minute Men did most of there fighting against the Red Coats.  They learned real quick to us the trees to protect them from the Red Coats.  The Red Coats said that this type of fighting was not gentleman fighting.  But they were pushed back to Boston.

This is the North Bridge of Concord and were the British were turned back by the Minute Men.

This statue represents the farmers that came forward to fight the Red Coats to keep there freedom.

Our guest talking with a colony Minute Man.

After a morning of walking around looking at the sights we stopped at the Colonial Inn for a great lunch.  We had to have the best chicken pot pie I have ever had, the potato's were great, and the green beans were good.  This place is over 300 years old and have seen this country go through a lot of changes.

Everyone in the group enjoyed there lunch.

This cemetery was used by the British officers to set on the hill and command there troops before retreating back to Boston for help.  You have to remember that there were over 700 Red Coats when they got here, it took the Minute Men a few hours to force them to head back to Boston.

This was our last stop of the day, they had a lot of artifacts here from the 1700's.  Tomorrow we head to Boston for another tour of how this country got started.