Hi! On this Fourth of July weekend, my park is the Minute Man Park. I went there and learned about the British leaving Boston to find the weapons that the Colonists were hiding. A man named Paul Revere rode very fast on his horse to warn the Colonists that the soldiers were coming. He got captured but his friend made it to Concord. The Colonists beat the British and so they had a bad March back to Boston.
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Minute Man National Historical Park
No one really knows who fired the first shot at the battle of Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, but the result is not disputed—America was at war for her independence from the British Crown.
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Established: 1959
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