Minute Man National Historical Park (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)

Minute Man National Historical Park protects about 967 acres in Concord, Lincoln and Lexington, Massachusetts, where the first battles of the American Revolution were fought on April 19, 1775. It has three separate units: North Bridge, the Wayside, and the four-mile Battle Road. Congress created it in 1959, and since then the park service has removed more than 200 later buildings to bring back the open, agricultural look of 1775. The district counts 105 contributing resources, including 43 buildings, 41 sites, 11 objects and 10 structures, along with about 25 miles of stone walls and historic field systems. Notable resources include the early eighteenth-century Major John Buttrick House, the 1911 Buttrick Mansion with its designed landscape, and the Wayside, once home to Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Alcotts. Archaeological studies since the 1960s have examined farmsteads and roads. The nomination documents the park's significance and lists its resources to guide future management.