... Paul Revere. By this corner trooped the Minute Men of Medford on their way to Lexington. Near the old slave wall on Grove street, in the midst of fertile fields and woodlands, stood the house of the Reverend Edward Brooks . He, too, went over to Lexngton on that morning and by this corner in full bottomed wig rode on horseback, his gun on his shoulder. From the garret window of his house his son, Peter, who later ...