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Bullet Hole House

On your way up to Old North Bridge, look for the yellow Bullet Hole House, where British troops purportedly fired at the owner of the house as they retreated from North Bridge. Unfortunately, there's no contemporary account to confirm or deny this local legend, which came into popular history several decades after the events in question.

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