2022 Schedule of Events
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EVENTS BEFORE PATRIOTS’ DAY WEEKEND
| Sunday, April 3 (rain date Saturday, April 9) 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Dress Rehearsal for the Reenactment of the Battle of Lexington
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Monday, April 4 – Friday, April 22 Monday through Friday 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM | On View: Original Alarm Letter That Spread the News of the Conflict in Lexington Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
Couriers delivered the news of the conflict at Lexington soon after the event.
Joseph Palmer, a member of the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, sent the first urgent missive by messenger Israel or Isaac Bissell in the late morning of April 19, 1775.
Bissell rode to Connecticut and perhaps further. Recipients duplicated Palmer’s letter several times to carry the news far and wide. |
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
| 8:30 AM | Parker’s Revenge Lexington Minute Men gather on the Battle Green to reenact the second call to arms from Captain John Parker, which took place on the afternoon of April 19, with additional dialogue from Rev. Jonas Clarke.
Following this event, the Minute Men march up Massachusetts Ave to Fiske Hill before continuing on to the Parker’s Revenge site in the Minute Man National Park for a skirmish reenactment.
Free |
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Visit the New Lexington Visitors Center
Purchase tickets here for a 90 minute Liberty Ride Guided Trolley Tour or a 1 hour Battle Green Walking Tour. Walk-ins also welcome space permitting.Tours can also be booked online.
Visitors Center is free |
| 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM | Buckman Tavern Tours 1 Bedford St.
Self-paced audio tours available. Admission tickets available at the house. Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Hancock-Clarke House Tours 36 Hancock St.
Guided tours available every half hour Admission tickets available at the house Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 10:30 AM | Parker’s Revenge Wreath Laying Ceremony On the Battle Road near the Minute Man National Park Visitor Center, Route 2A, Lexington
Lexington Minute Men lay a wreath at the site of the Parker’s Revenge skirmish, which occurred in the afternoon of April 19 when the Lexington Militia Company under Capt. John Parker ambushed the retreating Redcoats near the Lexington-Lincoln town line.
Free |
| 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Munroe Tavern Tours 1332 Massachusetts Ave.
Selfguided tours available Admission tickets available at the house Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 1:00 PM | Parker’s Revenge Reenactment On the Battle Road near the intersection of Old Massachusetts Ave. and Route 2A
Lexington Minute Men reenact the Parker’s Revenge engagement
Free |
| 1:00 PM | Lexington Bicentennial Band Concert
The Greatest Generation will be narrated by Suzie Barry, Select Board Member.
Free, donations accepted |
| 2:30 PM | Fife and Drum Performance Featuring Lexington’s own William Diamond Fife and Drum Corps
Free |
| 4:00 PM | Battle at Tower Park Tower Park, Massachusetts Ave. across from Pelham Rd.
Follow the British retreat as they fight the Colonial Militia, featuring a working reproduction cannon.
Organized by the Lexington Minute Men
Free |
SUNDAY, APRIL 17
| 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Visit the New Lexington Visitors Center
Purchase tickets here for a 90 minute Liberty Ride Guided Trolley Tour or a 1 hour Battle Green Walking Tour. Walk-ins also welcome space permitting. Tours can also be booked online.
Visitors Center is free |
| 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM | Buckman Tavern Tours 1 Bedford St.
Self-paced audio tours available. Admission tickets available at the house. Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | Hancock-Clarke House Tours 36 Hancock St.
Guided tours available every half hour Admission tickets available at the house Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Munroe Tavern Tours 1332 Massachusetts Ave.
Selfguided tours available Admission tickets available at the house Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 11:30 PM | Paul Revere Ride Reenactment Hancock-Clarke House, 36 Hancock St.
A reenactment of the arrival of Paul Revere at the Hancock-Clarke House
Free |
MONDAY, APRIL 18
| 5:30 AM | “The Alarm” at the Old Belfry
Come ring the bell that sounded the alarm that the Redcoats were coming.
Free |
5:30 AM (rain date Saturday, April 23, 5:30 AM) | Reenactment of the Battle of Lexington Massachusetts Ave. at Bedford S.t
The central event of Patriots’ Day weekend, the Lexington Minute Men have organized and sponsored the Reenactment since 1971 to recreate the birth of American Liberty on Lexington Common in 1775. “They nobly dared to be free!”
Free |
| 6:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Visit the New Lexington Visitors Center
Purchase tickets here for a 1 hour Battle Green Walking Tour. Walk-ins also welcome space permitting. Tours can also be booked online. Ninety minute Liberty Ride Guided Trolley Tours may also be available - please check back.
Visitors Center is free |
| 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM | Buckman Tavern Walk Through Tours 1 Bedford St.
Walk through the rooms of the historic tavern (interpreters present).
Admission tickets available at the house. Suggested donation $5
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| 6:00 AM - 10:00 AM | Pancake Breakfasts
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| 7: 30 AM | Sunrise Youth Parade
Free |
| 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Buckman Tavern Tours 1 Bedford St.
Self-paced audio tours available. Admission tickets available at the house. Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Hancock-Clarke House Tours 36 Hancock St.
Guided tours available every half hour Admission tickets available at the house Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM | Munroe Tavern Tours 1332 Massachusetts Ave.
Selfguided tours available Admission tickets available at the house Single house $12 adults/$7 children 3 houses $25 adults/$13 children (Buckman Tavern, Hancock-Clarke House & Munroe Tavern)
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| 8:15 AM | Patriots’ Day Ceremonies on the Battle Green Massachusetts Ave. at Bedford St.
Free |
| 9:00 AM | “First Shot!: The Day the Revolution Began” Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square
Enjoy a film screening of Lexington Historical Society’s award-winning video along with a special question and answer session with British and Colonial Reenactors and a sampling of Colonial Music.
Admission tickets available at the door. Suggested donation $10 adults/$5 children
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| 10:00 AM | Lexington Lions Club 108th Annual Five-Mile Road Race.
For more information, call 781-862-4710 or visit the Lexington Lions Club website. |
| 10:00 AM | “First Shot!: The Day the Revolution Began” Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square
Enjoy a film screening of Lexington Historical Society’s award-winning video along with a special question and answer session with British and Colonial Reenactors and a sampling of Colonial Music.
Admission tickets available at the door. Suggested donation $10 adults/$5 children
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| 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Lexington Minute Men/Daughters of the American Revolution 112th Wreath Laying Ceremony Lexington Battle Green, Massachusetts Ave. at Bedford St.
The LMM and DAR lay wreaths at several of the war monuments around the Battle Green, including the Revolutionary Monument where the Lexington soldiers killed on April 19, 1775 are buried.
Free |
| 11:00 AM | USS Lexington Memorial Ceremonies. Visitors Center,
Free |
| 11:00 AM | “First Shot!: The Day the Revolution Began” Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square
Enjoy a film screening of Lexington Historical Society’s award-winning video along with a special question and answer session with British and Colonial Reenactors and a sampling of Colonial Music.
Admission tickets available at the door. Suggested donation $10 adults/$5 children
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| 12:30 PM | Parade Float Judging Massachusetts Ave. in East Lexington, across from Sacred Heart Church.
Free |
| 1:00 PM | Paul Revere Arrives at the Battle Green on Horseback
Free |
| 2:00 PM | Patriots Day Afternoon Parade Starting at Massachusetts Ave. and Maple St. in East Lexington, proceeding west along Massachusetts Ave. through Lexington Center, left onto Worthen Rd., ending at the Town Pool parking lot.
Free |