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Bedford
Massachusetts, United States
Bedford, town (township), Middlesex county, northeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies near the Concord River, just northwest of Boston. Settled in 1642, it developed around an Algonquian Indian trading post called the Shawsheen House. It was incorporated in 1729 and named for Bedford, England. The Bedford flag, carried by the minutemen (people who took up arms at a “minute’s notice”) on April 19, 1775, against the British at Concord Bridge, is displayed in the town library; the house of the flag carrier, Cornet Nathaniel Page, is now a historic site. Other landmarks include the Old Burying Ground, with graves of Revolutionary ...(100 of 197 words)