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You almost certainly know the broad strokes of the American Revolution: the Tea Party, Paul Revere’s midnight ride, the Battle of Lexington and Concord. If you live in Massachusetts, you regularly walk or drive past historical sites, both well known and more obscure, from Bunker Hill to Gloucester’s Stage Fort Park. Yet, as the nation gears up to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this summer, there is so much more to discover about Massachusetts’s role in the birth of the United States. The North Shore is particularly rich with lesser-known stories, from a Marblehead Army captain wrongly a
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