ANDOVER MA FACTOID:

Andover MA ineresting locations: Phillips Academy, a prep school founded in 1778 with many famous alumni. The Andover Inn, a New England country inn on the Phillips campus. Chandler-Bigsby-Abbot House, built in 1673, is the oldest house in Andover. Andover is home to the second oldest land preservation society in the country, the Andover Village Improvement Society.

On April 19, 1775, approximately 350 Andover men marched toward Lexington. Although they did not arrive in time for the battle that day, they did go on to participate in the battle of Bunker Hill two months later and fought in subsequent skirmishes with the Redcoats during the war. Among the Andover men who were representatives to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention were Col. Samuel Osgood, Zebadiah Abbot, John Farnum and Samuel Phillips, Jr. Phillips � who would later go on to found Phillips Academy was later appointed by John Adams to help draft the Massachusetts state constitution.