Concord, MA: History, Museums, Places to Stay When the red-
coated ranks of British regulars tramped westward from Boston on
the fateful morning of April 19, 1775, little did they know that
they were about to catapult the sleepy village of Concord,
Massachusetts into the history books. The British captured the
rebels’ stores of ammunition and flour and dumped the lot into
the millpond in the center of town before being faced down at
the Old North Bridge by a freelance militia that sent them
scurrying back to Boston. Before continuing the engagement known
as the Revolutionary War, the frugal Yankees of Concord fished
the bullets and barrels of flour out of the pond and found that
the flour in the center of each barrel was still dry. The loaves
of bread baked from that flour must have been especially
toothsome to the patriots of Concord. “Four friends who walked
in Concord’s pleasant ways / Long years ago. They dwelt and
worked apart, / But now the world has crowned them with its
bays, / And holds them close for