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Dedicated by the Wayside Inn Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on November 1, 1914, a weathered stone marker on Old County Road in Sudbury<\/a> identifies the location where the town\u2019s militia once held drills. According to an article printed in the Boston Evening Transcript<\/em> on November 4th, the stone, reportedly from a wall built by a local Revolutionary War soldier, was moved from Walker Farm on Goodman\u2019s Hill Road in South Sudbury.<\/p>\n

Its engraved text reads:<\/p>\n

1720
\nTRAINING FIELD
\nSANDY HILL PLAIN
\nGOVERNMENT STORE HOUSES
\nWERE NEAR BY.<\/p>\n

ERECTED BY
\nWAYSIDE INN CHAPTER
\nD.A.R.
\n1914<\/p>\n

\u201cTraining Field Hill\u201d was a space for military drills as early as 1720, and served as the venue for at least one militia muster. Around the time of the Revolution, there were several government storehouses nearby on Sandy Hill, which held critical war munitions.<\/p>\n

In his late-nineteenth-century history of the town, Alfred S. Hudson noted that he had a chance to inspect one of these storehouses before it was moved and converted into a stable. He characterized the structure as, \u201ca very low building, perhaps forty by thirty feet, with a broad sloping roof. It was without partitions, and formerly had a very wide barn-like door in front.\u201d Now that the original architecture is long gone, his brief description is perhaps the best extant evidence for how the storehouses may have looked during the Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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