A summary of the Northborough Massachusetts plans for the celebration of the 250 year anniversary of the American Revolution.

A group of Northborough Citizens have formed a committee to commemorate Northborough’s role during the American Revolution. Commemoration events are being prepared throughout the country.

The Northborough Revolution 250 Committee is planning events to highlight our ancestor’s role in the Revolution. Members of the committee included representation from Northborough organizations including ; the Historical Society, the Historical Commission, the Community Affairs Committee, the Cultural Council, the American Legion and the Garden Club.

We are planning to involve community volunteers including the local schools and scouts.

Projects and events the Committee is planning revolve around highlighting events and people instrumental with Northborough’s revolutionary cause. In addition we will also participate in some regional events such as the Bunker Hill Parade and the Henry Knox Cannon trail.

This Community Advocate article provides additional information on planned Northborough activities.

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The Northborough Revolutionary War witness houses are defined as houses built prior to the end of the war and that are still in existence to this day. Northborough historians have identified twenty-eight such houses.

These houses were home to ordinary people who lived in extraordinary times. Some were home to the fifty Minutemen who marched on April 19th 1775, to Concord when the alarm reached town. A few were even home to loyalists. Yet all witnessed the founding of the United States and the two and a half centuries since.

Click on the button below to see full size images of and information on each individual home.
Images and Information
On Witness Houses

Scrollable map:

Desktop: Click on the map to see the location of each of these twenty-eight houses. Click on the resulting map to see a full size map. Use the scroll bars or mouse to move around the full size map.

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On 19 April 2025 the Northborough Library held a kickoff event to begin the statewide celebration of MA250. This event featured a photo exhibition of all 28 Witness Houses.

Here is a video from the library event which introduces the Northborough Revolution 250 committee and in which you can hear from the present day owners of two of the Witness Houses.

WITNESS HOUSE EVENT

Click on the button below to see photos from this event.
Photos from the
Witness House Exhibit

Northborough recruited fifty four Minutemen.
Click on the following image to see the full size list of their names.

Here is a video documenting the re-enactment of the Minutemen Departure from Northborough. This re-enactment took place on the Northborough town common on May 3, 2025.

Click on the image in the green bordered box below to see the whole 29 minute video. Or click instead on one of the following links to see a specific scene from the video.

MINUTEMEN EVENT

Mirabel Pan Weston 4:26

The Minuteman Departure Reenactment 7:19

The Minuteman of Northborough Poem 5:31

The Minutemen After the Call - Return from Bunker Hill 3:25

The Minuteman Reenactment Singing Performances 2:23

Click on the button below to see a selection of photos from the Minutemen Departure Event.
Minutemen Departure
Event Photos

The American Friends of Lafayette Organization have produced a series of six banners depicting the life of Lafayette. They were on display at the Northborough Library through Saturday 31 May 2025.

Click on one of the following images to see a larger version of the banner.

Click one more time on the resulting image to see the banner at full size.

On June 15 2025 the reenactment of Lafayette's 1825 tour of the United States passed through Northborough and stopped on the front lawn of the Northborough Historical Society at 12 noon.

Click on the following images to see the event posters.

Click on the following images to see a transcript of the speech given by Massachusetts Governor John Davis as portrayed by Ken Bennett, president of the Northborough Historical society and a transcript of the speech given by Lucy Allen as portrayed by Julianne Hirsh, Northborough Select Board Chair.

Click on the button below to see a selection of photos from the Lafayette Event on the Northborough Historical Society's front lawn.
Lafayette
Event Photos

The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on June 17, 1775. Since some of our Northborough Minutemen fought in this battle, we had 7 men in colonial attire representing specific Northborough men who were in this battle marching in the 2025 Bunker Hill Parade.

Steven Smith as Capt. Samuel Wood; Ruediger Volk as 1st Lieut. Timothy Brigham; Justin Glynn as 2nd Lieut. Thomas Seaver; Andrew Glynn as Drummer Joseph Sever (Thomas Seaver's younger brother); Jake Volk as Fifer Ebenezer Hudson; Felipe Volk as Private Elijah Hudson (Ebenezer's older brother); Carter Brannon as Private Nathan Johnson.

Click on the button below to see a selection of photos of the Northborough contingent at the Bunker Hill Parade.
Bunker Hill
Parade Photos

Here is a timeline of significant Northborough events during the Revolutionary War Period.

Northborough specific events. Click on the links, where available, for additional event details

A comprehensive list of planned Massachusetts events can be found here

Northborough Historical Sociaty - Website - FaceBook

Northborough Historical & Historic District Commissions - Website

Revolution 250 Private Organization - Website - FaceBook

250 State Organization - Website - FaceBook