In all there were six members of the French family who served in the Revolutionary War: William, a shoemaker, served at Bunker Hill and throughout the war; Jonas, a school teacher also served at Bunker Hill and other battles; Ebenezer, served throughout the war; Samuel was injured at Bunker Hill and died in Dunstable; Eleazer, also wounded, but died of consumption soon after; and Jonathan, another brother who served with his sons at Lake Champlain.            

Ammunition was stored in the loft of Patriot Asa Kendall's house. Each Dunstable soldier was provided with a fire-arm, bayonet, hatchet, cartridge box with buckshot, jackknife, powder, balls, flints, a knapsack, blanket and canteen. Ammunition was stored in the loft of the meeting house, and the place of mustering was Asa Kendall's house. The first town meeting was held at the Kendall Tavern.            

Ephraim Kimball's store was where the citizens stored guns, powder, and shot. Signal guns were fired from here at 9:00 a.m., to bring together the 42 men assembled on April 19, including: Amos and Thomas Kimball and Joshua Pearce with 1st. Lt. Joseph Fox. Under the direction of Capt. Ebenezer Bridge, they set out on foot for Concord. A second company of 29 headed by Capt. Ebenezer Woods included: Isaac Gibson and his three sons, John, Nathaniel and Jonathan; Isaac's brother Reuben and his two sons and a nephew. Levi Kimball was the drummer and Joseph Polly the fifer. John Gibson never returned, nor was his body ever found.

The Blodgett House on is one of the earliest houses in Dunstable. It is a 2 1/2-story five bay Colonial house with attached ell that is much different than the original homestead. The house is located back from the road and at a slightly lower elevation. The setting consists of 95 acres of land, primarily woodland. In its early years the house was reportedly used as one of four local garrison houses during conflicts with Native Americans.           

Camp Massapoag was established early in the 20th century to provide healthy summer recreation for urban children. It is a rustic camp of about 24 acres in the southern part of Dunstable on the shore of Massapoag Pond. The oldest building is the 1 1/2-story dining hall built in 1919. Most of the extant rustic facilities are hipped roof cabins that date to the 1940s.

Dunstable is one of several communities in the Freedom’s Way area that has a distinctive gateway to the town. Most people arrive in Dunstable via Route 3, turning onto Route 113 in Tyngsborough, which becomes East Main Street when it enters Dunstable. The transition from a busy 21st century commuter route to a scenic road that still reflects Dunstable’s agricultural past is remarkable.        

French Street is a short north/south connector road east of the town center extending between Main Street on the south and Thorndike Street on the north. It is a narrow rural road lined with stone walls and a mix of open fields and farmland. Most noteworthy is the old John French House originally built circa 1744. The house was added on to over the years until it became the Federal style house that exists today. Benjamin French built all of the barn, granary and shop circa 1861. Now it is an active dairy farm with acres of pasture and meadows surrounding the building complex.

The Red Line is the former Nashua, Acton and Boston Railroad right-of-way that runs through the central part of Dunstable. It was incorporated in 1871 and ran from Nashua, NH to Acton, MA. The Red Line continues south into Westford, which is hoping to develop it into a rail trail.

Salmon Brook flows north through the center of Dunstable with Massapoag Pond at its southern end. It is wide and meandering for most of its length, with wetlands and beaver ponds along the edges in some places. Salmon Brook is typical of many heritage landscapes in that it has both natural and cultural assets. It is valued as a water resource, as a scenic feature of the town, as open space and as wildlife habitat.

Dunstable’s present town center developed after the Revolutionary War, although many of the civic spaces and buildings date to the late 19th century. It is clustered around the intersection of Main Street and Pleasant Street. The major civic buildings (town hall, library and Swallow-Union School) are located along Main Street, while most of the commercial area is located along Pleasant Street. A distinctive characteristic of the center is that it is still quite rural, with mill ponds, fields and barns visible behind the buildings that line Pleasant Street, giving the area an open quality with the countryside extending right into the town center.