Deacon Jonathan Hosmer & Abner Hosmer Home Site
Location: 138 Prospect Street
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The bronze marker reads:
SITE OF THE HOME OF DEACON JONATHAN HOSMER.
ABNER HOSMER, HIS SON, PRIVATE IN CAPT. ISAAC
DAVIS' MINUTE COMPANY, AND TWO BLANCHARD
BROTHERS, APPRENTICED TO DEACON HOSMER, WENT
FROM HERE ON APRIL 19, 1775 TO CONFRONT THE
KING'S TROOPS AT THE NORTH BRIDGE IN CONCORD.
THERE ABNER HOSMER FELL DEAD IN THE SAME
BRITISH VOLLEY THAT KILLED CAPT. DAVIS.
This site was the birthplace and home of Abner Hosmer, killed at the Concord Fight on April 19, 1775. The farmhouse now at the site was built around 1837 by a Hosmer descendant, reusing parts of the original home.
Other memorials to Abner Hosmer include the Abner Hosmer gravestone and the Acton Monument itself. This memorial stone is across the street from the Blanchard Memorial Stone.
For more information, see:
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) #act.555
Phalen's History of the Town of Acton, accounts of the Concord fight, pages 76-81 and 400-401
Credit and thanks to Brewster Conant for pictures of this memorial.
SITE OF THE HOME OF DEACON JONATHAN HOSMER.
ABNER HOSMER, HIS SON, PRIVATE IN CAPT. ISAAC
DAVIS' MINUTE COMPANY, AND TWO BLANCHARD
BROTHERS, APPRENTICED TO DEACON HOSMER, WENT
FROM HERE ON APRIL 19, 1775 TO CONFRONT THE
KING'S TROOPS AT THE NORTH BRIDGE IN CONCORD.
THERE ABNER HOSMER FELL DEAD IN THE SAME
BRITISH VOLLEY THAT KILLED CAPT. DAVIS.
This site was the birthplace and home of Abner Hosmer, killed at the Concord Fight on April 19, 1775. The farmhouse now at the site was built around 1837 by a Hosmer descendant, reusing parts of the original home.
Other memorials to Abner Hosmer include the Abner Hosmer gravestone and the Acton Monument itself. This memorial stone is across the street from the Blanchard Memorial Stone.
For more information, see:
Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System (MACRIS) #act.555
Phalen's History of the Town of Acton, accounts of the Concord fight, pages 76-81 and 400-401
Credit and thanks to Brewster Conant for pictures of this memorial.