This exhibit ran from April 12, 2025, through July 17, 2026, but you can still see the exhibit by watching a video tour on YouTube!
Click here to watch the tour.
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the first day of the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775, we’ve created a collection of artifacts and stories specific to Bedford. Two rooms of the Historical Society Museum feature our town’s response to the urgent midnight call to arms: “The British are coming!”
You’ll be introduced to the Bedford patriots—militia and minutemen, Black and white, who battled the British “Redcoats” at Concord’s North Bridge and pursued them on a day-long running battle back to Boston. The exhibit brings to the fore the women and children who supported their men with food and ammunition. Learn of the Bedford men who were wounded or killed that day and ask, “Why was this happening?”
The main exhibit is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and on Sundays
2–4 p.m. at the Bedford Historical Society, 16 South Road, rear entrance.
Also, visit our satellite displays at the Bedford Free Public Library, 7 Mudge Way, Bedford, MA, to learn about the history of the present-day Bedford Minuteman Company.
For more information, call 781-275-7276 or email info@bedfordmahistory.org
