Today marks the 236th anniversary of the "Shot Heard Round the World" as it has been called. It was the first time British forces and American colonists shot at each other in the field of battle.
This week's American Profile Magazine had an article "The Spirit of 01776," on the Massachusetts town of Sudbury, proud holder of Zip Code 01776. In 1963, the US Postal Service assigned the town the number 01776 under its Zoning Improvement Plan.
And they claim it is fitting because no village sent more volunteer militia, 348, to face the British at the battles of Lexington and Concord all those years ago. Each April 19th, the town honors their forebears with a 12-mile march to Concord.
Sufbury was one of the villages west of Boston, which, on the night of April 18-19, 1775, received word that British general Thomas Gage was going to march out of Boston to Concord to seize stockpiled munitions.
Paul Revere got all the publicity for the riders who warned the colonists, but Sudbury was alerted by rider Abel Prescott, Jr., of Concord.
A large group of Minutemen immediately assembled and marched to Concord. Some had rifles or pistols, but others only had pitchforks.
Sound the Alarm. Who Is Coming? --Cooter
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