Some historians in central and western Massachusetts think we’ve gotten it wrong for 250 long years. The American Revolution didn’t start in Lexington and Concord in 1775. It actually started a year earlier, when thousands of colonists stormed courthouses in western and central Massachusetts in open rebellion to Britain’s takeover of the state’s judicial system, they say. GBH’s Sam Turken has more. … It’s actually quite interesting history. I hadn’t known about the courthouse rebellions until reading Turken’s piece. … I guess I’ve long suffered from a bad case of eastern-Massachusetts bias. … 

Btw, it seems they’ve been trying to set the record straight for a while now about where and when the Revolution really started.