History
isfor Everyone
Seventy-seven towns. The places where ordinary people made history.
75 / Towns. One Revolution.
The Shot Heard Round the World
75 Towns.
One Revolution.
Every town has a story. Most of them have never been told.
The War
Was Won
Here.
Not on famous battlefields alone. It was won in a farmhouse in Wilmington where a surgeon packed his bag. In a church in Salem where men argued through the night. In a kitchen in Concord where someone hid the powder.
This project maps those places. All of them.
75 Towns · 8 Years · 1 Revolution
The Map
Where It
Happened
This Week
Concord
Apr 19
The shot heard round the world. But who fired it? Seventy-seven militia stood on a triangular green at dawn. What they knew — and feared — is more complicated than the myth.
Read the Town →“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.”
Thomas Paine · The American Crisis · 1776
The Stories
Nobody Tells
All Stories →The Surgeon Who Rode Before Revere
Samuel Prescott was the only rider who actually made it to Concord. Revere was captured. Dawes turned back. Prescott jumped a stone wall.
Read MoreThe Tavern That Was Really a War Room
Every town had one. The public room where men drank cider and planned treason. Buckman Tavern had both — sometimes on the same night.
Read MoreThe Women Who Kept the Powder Dry
When the men marched out, someone stayed behind. Hid the flax. Buried the pewter. Fed the scouts who came through at midnight. These are their names.
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