Buckman Tavern
1 Bedford St, Lexington, MA 02420, USA
Massachusetts, USA
MUSEUM
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TAVERN
EST. 1710
EST. 1710
BATTLEFIELD
April 19, 1775
Adams, John
Revere, Paul
Adams, Samuel
Smith, Francis
Hancock, John
Warren, Joseph
Pitcairn, John
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Buckman Tavern.
The original early-eighteenth-century tavern survives beside Lexington Battle Green as a furnished museum. The Lexington Historical Society preserves its period rooms, taproom, collections, architectural fabric, and grounds, with exhibitions and guided interpretation focused on community life and the events of April 1775.
About Buckman Tavern
The tavern was built in about 1709–1710 by Benjamin Muzzey (1657–1735), and with license granted in 1693 was the first public house in Lexington. Muzzey ran it for years, then his son John, and then at the time of the battle it was run by John's granddaughter and her husband John Buckman, a member of the Lexington Training Band.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Buckman Tavern
The Battle of Lexington and Concord took form before dawn on April 19, 1775. Having received word that the regular army had left Boston in force to seize and destroy military supplies in Concord, several dozen militiamen gathered on the town common, and then eventually went to the tavern to await the arrival of the British troops.
Definite word reached them just before sunrise, and Captain Parker'scompany of militia left the tavern to assemble in two ranks on the common. Following the arrival of the army, a single shot was fired; by whom, it is still unknown. With this shot, the American Revolutionary War began.
Although best known as the headquarters of the militia, Buckman Tavern is also noteworthy as perhaps the busiest of Lexington's 18th-century taverns. It housed the first village store in Lexington, and later, in 1813, the first town post office.
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