The Lexington Historical Society purchased the house in 1896, moved it across the street from its original site and restored it to its original condition. The larger part of the Society’s extraordinary collection of historic relics is exhibited in this house and in a fireproof wing.] [Illustration: The Newer Part of the Hancock-Clarke House (1734) Is Rich in Fine Panelling, Fireplaces and Revolutionary Relics] [Illustration: Attic Atmosphere under the Low Gambrel of the Hancock-Clarke House] [Illustration: AUTUMN AT THE HARTWELL FARM] [Illustration: ALONG THE BATTLE ROAD—THE HARTWELL FARM IN LINCOLN The route of the British from Lexington to Concord led through the town of Lincoln along a wooded highway. It was at a bend in this road, about two o’clock in the morning, that the midnight ride of Paul Revere ended. In company with William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott, Paul Revere was halted by a British patrol. Dawes escaped, as did Dr. Prescott, who went on to give the alarm at Concord, but Revere was arrested and taken back to Lexington. There he was released, and later joined John Hancock and Samuel Adams. The Samuel Hartwell house, now known as the Hartwell Farm, is one of the survivors along the Battle Road. Past its front door the red-coated Grenadiers matched with smart precision on the morning of April 19th. They returned in the afternoon, with broken ranks and no semblance of military order, harassed by the minutemen. One Grenadier pushed his broken musket through a window of the house and left it there, and several fired bullets into its boarded facade.] [Illustration: Farmhouse along the Battle Road] [Illustration: The Farm at Meriam’s Corner] [Illustration: MERIAM’S CORNER, CONCORD The first point of interest encountered in Concord marks, not the British approach but their retreat, after the rout at North Bridge. Here, at Meriam’s Corner, the minutemen who had fought at the bridge were joined by embattled farmers from Sudbury, Framingham and other neighboring towns. From all sides they poured fire on the retreating Regulars, finally driving them all the way to Boston.] [Illustration: THE FERTILE FIELDS OF CONCORD, SCENE OF THE BRITISH RETREAT] [Illustration: GRAPEVINE COTTAGE, CONCORD Along Lexington Road in Concord begins a succession of interesting buildings, the first of which is this cottage, the home of Captain Ephraim Wales Bull, who bred and developed the Concord grape here in the 1840’s. A shoot from the root of the original Concord grapevine still prospers under the trellis.] [Illustration: “THE WAYSIDE,” HOME OF THREE AUTHORS, CONCORD