Massachusetts Gate - Historic Marker - Boston, Massachusetts,
N 42° 22.546 W 071° 03.664
19T E 330311 N 4693556
Massachusetts Gate Marker - Is located at the southern entrance steps to the Bunker Hill Monument of Boston National Historical Park. Standing at the end of the Freedom Trail, Breed's Hill, Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Waymark Code: WMY4WV
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2018
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Massachusetts Gate Marker Inscription:
" Colonel William Prescott of Massachusetts led the colonial forces on Breed’s Hill. His commanding figure and strong will inspired the farmer soldiers to the greatness of the day. Dr. Joseph Warren, commissioned a Major General, elected to serve Prescott as a private in the battle. Dr. Warren, an early leader in the Revolution, was killed on this battlefield in the waning moments of the conflict."
From the National Park Website:
"On June 17, 1775, New England soldiers faced the British army for the first time in a pitched battle. Popularly known as "The Battle of Bunker Hill,"
bloody fighting took place throughout a hilly landscape of fenced pastures that were situated across the Charles River from Boston. Though the British forces claimed the field, the casualties inflicted by the Provincial solders from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire were staggering. Of the some 2,400 British Soldiers and Marines engaged, some 1,000 were wounded or killed.
Fifty years after the battle, the Marquis De Lafayette set the cornerstone of what would become a lasting monument and tribute to the memory of the Battle of Bunker Hill. The project was ambitious: construct a 221-foot tall obelisk built entirely from quarried granite. It took over seventeen years to complete, but it still stands to this day atop a prominence of the battlefield now known as Breed's Hill. Marking the site where Provincial forces constructed an earthen fort, or "Redoubt," prior to the battle, this site remains the focal point of the battle's memory."
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Massachusetts Gate Marker is at the intersection of Monument Sq and Monument Ave on Monument Sq.
Marker is located at the southern entrance to the Bunker Hill unit of Boston National Historical Park. Marker is in this post office area: Charlestown MA 02129, United States of America.