57 men and two officers met on the Parade Ground and under Captain John Fuller marched to the Public House for dinner. At 2 P.M. the men went to the Meeting House for a sermon by the Reverend Adams. Before leaving to respond to the Alarm, Captain Fuller planted a buttonwood tree at his house, on the corner of what is now West and Electric Avenue, and another on the lower Common where the troops had trained. Captain George Kimball led another company, in all 101 men from Lunenburg were in the Continental Army. Fuller later served as a delegate to the Constitutional Congress in 1778. A total of 194 men performed military service during the Revolution, some were in General Washington’s bodyguard.

Cushing House is the oldest house in Lunenburg. This house has a ghost. Legend has it that Colonel Charles Cushing’s redheaded daughter Betsy hid her soldier lover in the house. Versions differ as to whether the soldier was British or an American deserter. However, the soldier was caught and hanged from a tree on the property. For reasons of her own, Betsy vowed to stay around and maintain a “vigil.” Former owners tell stories of encountering the redhead. The Peters family was living in the house in 1965 when their six-year- old daughter reported that a red-haired lady named Elizabeth sat on her bed and taught her a song.

Reports of an abandoned silver mine across the road from the house, in the valley between the hills that has never been found.

In 1739 John Fitch, who had been living on Lancaster Street in Lunenburg for seven years, purchased 120 acres in the northern part of town, where he built a garrison and moved there with his family. During the French and Indian Wars, after successful raids on the Lunenburg border, the province sent soldiers to help in the defense of the garrisons. Despite this effort, John Fitch was captured with his wife Susannah and their children as the attackers set fire to the garrison. The family was marched to Canada where they were turned over to French officers and marched from there to New York and Providence. Susannah died in Providence in the winter of 1748. John returned to Lunenburg and rebuilt his house. He remarried in 1750 and continued farming. The town boundaries having changed, the site of the original garrison house is now in Ashby where there is a marker.

The town was originally known as Turkey Hills because of the abundance of turkeys. The first 26 homes were raised in the center.

Home of George Kimball, who served as a Captain in the Continental Army.