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The Meetinghouses Marker on the Battle Green<\/a> marks the approximate location of Lexington<\/a>\u2019s first three meetinghouses, the earliest of which was built in 1692.<\/p>\n

As recorded in the 1884 Report of the Lexington Committee on Monuments and Tablets<\/em>, it was unanimously determined that the first spot to be marked should be the site of the meeting house of 1775 originally located at the south end of the common. Described as the most prominent object on the battlefield, it was also the center of civil and religious life where town meetings were held and, \u201cthe decisive action was taken which led to forcible resistance to the aggressions of the Mother Country.\u201d It was within the walls of the meetinghouse that the town\u2019s powder was stored and the dead were brought following the Battle of Lexington n April 19, 1775.<\/p>\n

The Meetinghouses Marker is shaped in the form of a reading desk with a closed book upon it, indicating the site\u2019s civic and religious history. Its south-facing orientation mimics the pulpits of the meeting houses it commemorates. The Meetinghouses Marker was the most expensive of all the monuments erected by the Lexington Committee on Monuments and Tablets.<\/p>\n

Built from a single block of red Jonesboro granite resting on a base of Fox Island granite, its sunken polished panel\u2019s inscription reads:<\/p>\n

SITE OF THE FIRST THREE
\nMEETING-HOUSES IN LEXINGTON
\nI
\nBUILT, 1692, WHEN THE TOWN
\nWAS A PARISH OF CAMBRIDGE:
\nII
\nBUILT, 1713, ON THE
\nINCORPORATION OF LEXINGTON:
\nIII
\nBUILT, 1794: BURNED, 1846.<\/p>\n

THIS SPOT IS THUS IDENTIFIED WITH
\nTHE TOWN\u2019S HISTORY FOR 150 YEARS.<\/p>\n

The opposite face of the marker includes the names and pastorate dates of seven of the town\u2019s religious leaders:<\/p>\n

PASTORATES:
\nBENJAMIN ESTABROOK, 1692-1697
\nJOHN HANCOCK, 1698-1752
\nJONAS CLARKE, 1755-1805
\nAVERY WILLIAMS, 1807-1815
\nCHARLES BRIGGS, 1819-1835
\nWM. G. SWETT, 1836-1839
\nJASON WHITMAN, 1845-1846<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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