Town Common
Sudbury, MASudbury’s town common played a particularly important role in the mobilization of the town’s defensive forces on April 19, 1775. The area served as a gathering point from which the town’s minute and militia companies departed for Concord.
Men from all over town mustered at the common, where they made their final preparations for battle. In total, three companies of militia and two companies of minute men left from Sudbury to answer the Concord alarm.
A commemorative plaque set into a simple stone marker affirms the spot’s local significance:
SUDBURY COMMON
FROM THIS PLACE MARCHED
THE MILITIA AND MINUTE COMPYS
OF THIS TOWN TO CONCORD
APRIL 19, 1775
ERECTED BY
THE SUDBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
1967