Commemorated by a marker at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Tufts Street, the Black Horse Tavern was the location where The Committee of Safety, a colonial organization that resisted British rule, met on April 18th, 1775, the day before the British pillaged and set fire to many buildings in Menotomy (present day Arlington) on their retreat from Concord.

It is reported that on the evening the British troops marched to Concord, several members of the Committee who slept in the tavern awoke to British soldiers knocking on the door wanting to search the building. They escaped and eluded their pursuers by hiding in a cornfield behind the tavern.

The monument’s inscription reads:

The site of the
Black Horse Tavern,
where met the
Committee of Safety
in 1775.