This Memorial Day Weekend, visit the second oldest burial ground in Salem, Massachusetts. Founded in 1655, Broad Street Cemetery has 70+ Revolutionary War veterans buried within its 2.69 acres, including Col. Timothy Pickering (1745-1829). Also buried there are 30+ veterans from other wars, including Civil War hero Brig. Gen. Frederick Lander (1821-1862). Over Memorial Day...
Join us for the re-dedication of the park created for the Bicentennial in 1976. Names will be read of the Andover veterans who died during the Revolutionary War. A new plaque commemorating General Lafayette's 1825 visit to Andover will be unveiled. The Memorial Day parade follows at 10:00 am. Rev Park is located at the...
On his 27th birthday in May 1776 (May 19th), Captain James Mugford became an early Revolutionary War hero and martyr, killed in combat by the British in retaliation for his having audaciously and fortuitously captured a 300-ton British supply ship a day or two before. It’s a sad but fascinating story! – as his...
The last two weekends in May, this walking tour takes you past the homes of the four Glover brothers and their families (exteriors only), and features relevant and poignant quotes from John Glover's correspondence. Each tour meets in front of Abbot Hall and ends at General Glover's home in Glover Square, near the Town Landing. Donations will benefit the “Save...
The last two weekends in May, this walking tour takes you past the homes of the four Glover brothers and their families (exteriors only), and features relevant and poignant quotes from John Glover's correspondence. Each tour meets in front of Abbot Hall and ends at General Glover's home in Glover Square, near the Town Landing. Donations will benefit the “Save...
The last two weekends in May, this walking tour takes you past the homes of the four Glover brothers and their families (exteriors only), and features relevant and poignant quotes from John Glover's correspondence. Each tour meets in front of Abbot Hall and ends at General Glover's home in Glover Square, near the Town Landing. Donations will benefit the “Save...
We all learn about the land battles that began the American Revolution, but less is known about the merchants and mariners who risked their livelihoods and lives to take the battle to the British on the high seas. This lecture will explore the world of the privateersmen and navy sailors who supplied one of Essex...
The Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775, up above Charlestown, just north of Boston, early in the war, is famous for several reasons. The battle, the Revolutionary War’s first major combat involving cannons, was a loss for the Americans, but the British suffered a high number of casualties. One of the American revolution’s...
The Battle of Gloucester On a summer day in 1775, the British warship HMS Falcon sailed into Gloucester Harbor in pursuit of two colonial schooners. What followed became one of the first naval engagements of the American Revolution—and an unlikely victory for the townspeople of Gloucester. Captain John Linzee of the fourteen-gun sloop HMS Falcon...
The Battles of Lexington and Concord are well known as "the shot heard round the world" but have you ever heard of the Battle of Moore's Creek? Or the Revolutionary War connection between Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York and Dorchester Heights in Boston? Or the Mecklenburg Resolves? This talk by Professor Abby Chandler focuses...
Celebrate the spirit of independence with Abigail Adams: Liberty and Legacy at the historic Rocky Hill Meeting House! In this engaging performance, local actor Sheryl Faye brings to life one of America’s most influential women—a revolutionary, mother, and advocate for women’s rights. Set in the eighteenth-century Rocky Hill Meeting House, this program explores Adams’s intelligence, courage, and her...
John Glover is justly the most famous and celebrated of Marblehead’s hundreds of Revolutionary servicemen due to his capable and resolute leadership of his intrepid and unflinching Continental Army regiment during the war’s first year and a half, through December 1776, while he was a Colonel. Although the numbers of his soldiers were somewhat in...
