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F or most Americans, the name Paul Re- vere conjures up images of the Boston silversmith’s famous “midnight ride” of April 18th, 1775, when he galloped through the towns of Middlesex County, Massachusetts to warn the colonists of the British troops who were crossing the Charles River from Boston on their way to Lexington and Concord to seize a rebel arms cache, and perhaps, arrest a few of the nascent revolution’s leaders. But for the residents of Canton, Massachu- setts, a town of 21,500, some 15 miles south- west of downtown Boston, the story of Paul Re- vere begins much later in the life of the famous patriot - in fact a good quarter century after his famous ride. In 1801, at age 65, Revere decided to move from Boston to Canton to set up a mill to roll copper sheets, presumably to replace cor- rosive iron fixtures and plate bottoms on ships with rustproof copper. The process of plating CANTON, MASSACHUSETTS HOME OF THE PAUL REVERE HERITAGE SITE Massachusetts CANTON,