Pageant Exhibition Panel 20 - The Departure of the Minutemen

Pageant Exhibition Panel 20 - The Departure of the Minutemen

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Minuteman (Militia)--Massachusetts--Lancaster; Lancaster (Mass.)--History--Drama; Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster; Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster

The Lancaster Militia departing while the women console themselves during Episode IV, The Minutemen, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. On the morning of April 19, 1775, the news that the British troops under General Thomas Gage had left Boston for Lexington and Concord, and that the first shots had been fired there in the American Revolutionary War reached Lancaster. The calls went out across the region, and men swarmed to the town common to join the American forces and come to the aid of Boston. In the end two hundred and fifty men set out from Lancaster. Most remained in Cambridge for only two weeks, but a third remained in service for the remaining months of 1775.





The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.

Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912.



DEPARTURE OF THE MINUTE-MEN, 1775

Sears, Richard

Image is the twentieth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.

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1912-07-04

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From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org

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