Isaac Davis Home Site Marker

Following the services dedicating the Joseph Robbins Home Site Memorial Stone and Calvin and Luther Blanchard Memorial Stone on April 19, 1895, a memorial was dedicated at the premises of Charles Wheeler on Hayward Road, recognizing the place that Captain Isaac Davis, a hero of the American Revolution, once called home. It was from here the Acton Minute Men left for Concord on the morning of April 19th, and where the funeral for the fallen was held a few days later. Davis' farmhouse no longer existed at the time the memorial was erected.

The dedication service included an address by Reverend George F. Clark of West Acton. Included in Alfred S. Hudson’s 1899 Commemoration of Calvin and Luther Blanchard, the address implored those in attendance to remember the story of Davis and his “brave associates” as a tale that can never grow old and should be retold, “to coming generations, until throughout the entire world the inalienable rights of men of every race and clime shall be guaranteed.”

The corresponding text reads:

DAVIS HOME
THIS FARM WAS THE HOME
OF CAPT. ISAAC DAVIS
WHO WAS KILLED IN BATTLE
BY THE BRITISH AT
THE OLD NORTH BRIDGE
IN CONCORD APRIL 19, TH.
1775.