John Parker succumbed to the tuberculosis that ... But his image lives on in American lore as the inspiration for the famous Minuteman Statue on Lexington Common; and in the nation's faith of ...

The find of 10 musket balls and the waistcoat button show where Lexington militia Capt. John Parker and his 77 militia members fought the British for the second time on April 19, 1775.

Concord minuteman Amos Barrett remembered ... by many of the Lexington men for their militia service. Captain John Parker’s fowling piece (bottom) was donated to the Commonwealth of ...

It was in this location on April 19, 1775, when it called Capt. John Parker’s militia, then known as the Lexington Training Band, to assemble. On the morning of the birth of the nation ...

John Parker, who played an important role in what has come down in history as the opening battle of the American War of Independence from Great Britain, was born on this day in 1729 in Lexington ...