The First Town Cemetery is behind the Former Town Hall built in 1892 and designed by Boston architect W. Langdon Warren. The Town Common includes the land across the street, around the Parish House. Behind Bemis Hall off Old Lexington Road, the cemetery contains a number of Revolutionary patriots including Captain Samuel Farrar, Lieutenant Samuel Hoar, Colonel Abijah Pierce, and General Eleazer Brooks.    

Opened as a tavern in 1700s and built at approximately the same time, located on the North Great Road (the Battle Road) within Minute Man National Historic Park. Accounts of 1775 sometimes refer to the Brooks Tavern, as it was a well-known landmark. Not open to the public.

The wife of Capt. William Smith, Catherine Louisa Smith, cared for a wounded British soldier in their home following the battle. The soldier later died.    

Dr. Charles Chambers and his family were Tories living in what is now the Codman House Museum. Reportedly fled to Boston on April 19.

Historic center of town—library, town hall, police station, and church.

Established in 1756. Also known as Lincoln Cemetery and Old Town Cemetery.

Elijah Mason, age 17, served as a fifer in the Minute Man Company; Daniel Brown, approximately age 17, served as the company’s drummer. Others age 17, and perhaps age 16, served as privates in the military.

David Mead was the Tavern owner.

Captain William Smith rode to this location, where the bell was rung to sound the alarm.

Contains the William Smith House, Hartwell Tavern, remnants of the Samuel Hartwell House, and other houses and sites, along with the Paul Revere Capture monument (erected by the Town of Lincoln).

Minute Men Company and the Lincoln Militia Company were the first military companies to reach Concord.

Nathaniel Baker lived on his family's farm in South Lincoln. He was one of the riders who brought news of the alarm to South Lincoln. Marker: Baker Bridge Boulder.      

Josiah Nelson carried the news to Bedford.

Built as a Poor House, first opened as a tavern in 1805-09. Local lore claims some of the Minute Men stayed here prior to responding to the church bell and running to muster, during ceremonies the night before the march to Concord.

After Prescott escaped the British troops that would capture Revere, he brought the news to others further along in Lincoln before he reached Concord. The best known accounts are that Prescott first stopped at the Samuel Hartwell house (some accounts suggest that he may have stopped further up the street, and that there may have been a slave who then brought word to the Hartwells.) Well documented is the story of Mary Flint Hartwell carrying the alarm from her house to the neighboring home of William Smith, Captain of the Lincoln Minute Man Company.    

Brown’s Wood, located east of Weston Road near Valley Pond, is a modest mid-20th century neighborhood that was developed after World War II as a non-profit cooperative by young couples seeking modern architecture at an affordable price. It remains notable for its semi-cooperative organization and the fact that it involved both the architects and the owners in the design and construction of the 23 houses.

The catalpa tree on the library grounds is particularly valued by Lincoln residents for the unusual whorled character of its trunk. The tree was probably planted soon after the library was dedicated in 1883.

The DeNormandie Farm on Trapelo Road is one of the largest land holdings in Lincoln and one of the most visible farms in the community. It is particularly valued for the scenic quality of the barn and pond, which are visible from the road, and for the sledding hill, which the DeNormandie family has informally allowed town residents to use for years.

Charles Farrington established the Farrington Memorial in honor of his parents, Ebenezer and Eliza Farrington. His goal was to maintain a non-sectarian philanthropic resource for enriching the lives of urban children. The Farrington Memorial opened in July 1912 to care for sick children from Children's Hospital who needed a temporary stay in the country to recuperate.

This small feature, located in the traffic island in front of the library, is one of the smallest heritage landscapes identified to date but it is a town icon and a symbol of the community’s rural heritage. It is an 1892 horse trough that has been converted to a decorative planter.

The Massachusetts Audubon Society owns a large amount of land in South Lincoln. There are two main parcels, the Drumlin Farm property south of Route 117, the core of which is operated as a historic farm, and the former Hatheway Estate north of Route 117, which is now the Society’s headquarters.

This stone marker was probably erected around the 1840s when the road system through the Lincoln area was improved. It is rough-cut granite with block letters indicating that Boston is 16 miles to the east and Fitchburg is 34 miles to the west.