James Hayward Home Site
Location: 331 Arlington Street
This memorial was funded partially by private donations and partially by the Town of Acton and was put in place in 1977. It marks the site of the home of James Hayward, who went to Concord April 19, 1775 with Isaac Davis's Company and was killed later in the day when he stopped for a drink at a well at the Fiske farm house in Lexington.
The plaque reads:
SITE OF THE HOME OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL HAYWARD AND OF HIS SON, JAMES, WHO WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED AT LEXINGTON ON THE 19TH OF APRIL, 1775. "WHEN FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRIE'S LIBERTY HE AND HIS FOE WERE BY EACH OTHER SLAIN."
For more information, see:
Cosgrove, May. "James Hayward honored at Memorial Day Dedication," Assabet Valley Beacon, June 2, 1977. (Acton Memorial Library, Historical Information Acton Scrapbook, Volume 1, Item 109).
For information about James Hayward, see:
Fletcher, James. Acton in History. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1890, pages 256-257.
Phalen, Harold. History of the Town of Acton. Cambridge, MA: Middlesex Printing Inc., 1954, page 83.
The plaque reads:
SITE OF THE HOME OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL HAYWARD AND OF HIS SON, JAMES, WHO WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED AT LEXINGTON ON THE 19TH OF APRIL, 1775. "WHEN FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRIE'S LIBERTY HE AND HIS FOE WERE BY EACH OTHER SLAIN."
For more information, see:
Cosgrove, May. "James Hayward honored at Memorial Day Dedication," Assabet Valley Beacon, June 2, 1977. (Acton Memorial Library, Historical Information Acton Scrapbook, Volume 1, Item 109).
For information about James Hayward, see:
Fletcher, James. Acton in History. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1890, pages 256-257.
Phalen, Harold. History of the Town of Acton. Cambridge, MA: Middlesex Printing Inc., 1954, page 83.