Lexington Road in Concord brings you to the Farwell Jones House, an early 18th-century home tied to the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord. The site first appears in records in 1716, when John Jones established a farm here; around 1760 his son Farwell took over the farm a couple of years before his father’s death. At the time of the 1775 fighting, Farwell’s sister Olive Stow and her two children lived next door in the house now known as the Stow‑Hardy House.
Farwell later married Hannah Hosmer in 1777; their daughter Hannah inherited this house in 1802, and title transferred to her husband, Calvin Wright, who died in 1803, after which the property was split between their two children. The home left the Jones family in 1838, passed through four owners before James Carty bought it in 1891, and Carty sold the farm to George Williams in 1907. Today this house is one of eleven buildings within the Minute Man National Historic Park that still stand.
Notice the nearby stretch of Lexington Road and the former Battle Road beside it, the same Lexington Road tied to the 1775 fighting.