by Desiree Demski-Hamelin | Nov 1, 2024
In Memorial Park, near the entrance to Arlington Central Fire Station, is a stone memorial with a bronze plaque placed by the Menotomy Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1926. It reads: IN MEMORY OF THE WOMEN OF MENOTOMY [NOW ARLINGTON] WHO SO...
by Desiree Demski-Hamelin | Oct 29, 2024
When the alarm rang for militia and minute men to join what would be the first battles of the American Revolution, older men were excused from any expectation to fight. That didn’t stop the revolutionary spirit from taking hold of a group of “old men” who captured...
by Desiree Demski-Hamelin | Oct 29, 2024
One of the most prominent features of Arlington’s Old Burying Ground is the nineteen-foot-tall obelisk of pure New Hampshire granite encircled by a stone and iron fence honoring those killed in Menotomy (incorporated as West Cambridge in 1807 and renamed Arlington...
by Desiree Demski-Hamelin | Oct 24, 2024
This historical marker, erected by the Arlington Bicentennial Planning Committee in 1978 and sited in a small triangular park at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Lowell Street, commemorates the colonial minute men and British soldiers who met in one of the...
by Desiree Demski-Hamelin | Oct 17, 2024
On the morning of April 19, 1775, approximately 1,700 British soldiers marched on Lexington and Concord. Before long, colonial minute and militia companies had forced the opposing side to retreat to Boston. Along the way, the bloodiest skirmish of the day took place...
