Local Stories in Middlesex County
Massachusetts·1 place
History
Lechmere Point
Lechmere Point in East Cambridge is where the British column bound for Lexington and Concord came ashore on the night of 18 April 1775. About 800 grenadiers, light infantry and marines under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith had embarked at about ten o'clock at the foot of Boston Common, in the boats of the warships in the harbour, and were rowed across the Back Bay to what was then Phipps Farm, a…
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