Old North Bridge

Leaving Lexington, continue along Route 2A to Concord and visit the area where the battle at the Old North Bridge between the British and the Minutemen took place. The Minutemen, so called because of their willingness to pick up arms on a minute’s notice to defend against injustices inflicted by the British government, drove the British soldiers back through Lexington and on to Boston. At the Old North Bridge Visitor Center there is a replica of the “bridge that arched the flood” and a national park ranger recounts the story of the "shot heard round the world".