Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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Where is Concord, Massachusetts, USA? Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
The area which became the town of Concord was originally known as "Musketaquid," situated at the confluence of the Sudbury and Assabet rivers. The name Musketaquid was an Algonquian word for "grassy plain," fitting the area's low-lying marshes and kettle holes. Native Americans had cultivated corn crops there; the rivers were rich with fish and the land was lush and arable. However, the area was largely depopulated by the smallpox plague that swept across the Americas after the arrival of Europeans.
In 1635, a group of settlers from Britain led by Rev. Peter Bulkley and Major Simon Willard negotiated a land purchase with the remnants of the local tribe. Bulkley was an influential religious leader who "carried a good number of planters with him into the woods". Willard was a canny trader who spoke the Algonquian language and had gained the trust of Native Americans. Their six-square-mile purchase formed the basis of the new town, which was called "Concord" in appreciation of the peaceful acquisition.
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Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Old North Bridge showing Minute Man Statue and Battle Green, Concord, Mass.
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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"The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts is a National Historic Landmark lived in by three American Literary figures: Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Sidney and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and the short story collections; Mosses from an Old Manse and Twice-Told Tales lived here from 1852 until 1870 and gave it the name by which it is still known..." www.nps.gov)
Hawthorne's Wayside, Concord, Mass.
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Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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"Wright's Tavern is a historic tavern located in the center of Concord, Massachusetts. It is now a National Historic Landmark owned by the Society of the First Parish, Concord, with important associations with the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution.
Wright's Tavern was built in 1747 by Ephraim Jones, who operated it until 1751. At the dawn of the American Revolution in April 1775, it was managed by Amos Wright, whose name it has borne ever since. On April 19, the day of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, when the courthouse bell announced the approach of Major Pitcairn's British troops, the Concord Minutemen assembled at Wright's Tavern. Later, after Pitcairn's arrival in the Concord square, British officers refreshed themselves in the tavern..." wikipedia)
Wright Tavern, Concord, Mass.
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Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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"Orchard House is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. It was the longtime home of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) who wrote and set her novel Little Women (1868–69) there.
The Alcotts had first moved to Concord in 1840, although they left in 1843 to start Fruitlands, a utopian agrarian commune in nearby Harvard. The family returned in 1845 and purchased a house named "Hillside", but left again in 1852, selling to Nathaniel Hawthorne who renamed it The Wayside.
The Alcotts returned to Concord once again in 1857. They moved into Orchard House, which was then two-story clapboard farmhouse, in the spring of 1858. At the time of purchase the site included two early eighteenth-century houses on a 12-acre apple orchard. Consequently, the Alcotts named it Orchard House. "'Tis a pretty retreat", Bronson Alcott wrote soon after moving in, "and ours; a family mansion to take pride in, rescued as it is from deformity and disgrace"..." wikipedia)
The Alcott House
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Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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"The Old Manse was built in 1770 for Rev. William Emerson, father of minister Rev. William Emerson and grandfather of transcendentalist writer and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson. The elder Emerson was the town minister in Concord, chaplain to the Provincial Congress when it met at Concord in October 1774 and later a chaplain to the Continental Army. Rev. Emerson observed the fight at the North Bridge, a part of the Concord Fight, from his farm fields while his wife and children witnessed the fight from the upstairs windows of their house.
Rev. Emerson died in October 1775 in West Rutland, Vermont, while returning home from Fort Ticonderoga. His widow, Phebe Emerson, remarried to the Rev. Ezra Ripley, who succeeded Rev. Emerson as the minister at First Parish Church in Concord. Their family continued to live in the Old Manse. Rev. Ripley served as Concord's town minister for 63 years.
In October 1834, Ralph Waldo Emerson moved to Concord and boarded at the Manse where he lived with his aging step-grandfather Ezra Ripley.[2] He shared the home with his mother Ruth, his brothers Charles, and his aunt Mary. While there, he wrote the first draft of his essay "Nature", a foundational work of the Transcendentalist movement..." wikipedia)
The Old Manse
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Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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Sculpted by Daniel Chester French, the base is inscribed with the lines of Emerson's poem.
In Concord, at the Old North Bridge within the Minuteman National Historic Park, are several monuments related to the skirmish around the bridge on April 19, 1775. The most notable memorial is the one with a sculpture of a minuteman.
The Minuteman Monument
The monument is made of bronze on a stone base. The bronze sculpture is of a farmer with a gun, leaving his plough behind to join the battle that he heard. The base has inscriptions on it. The front inscription is a verse of a poem by Ralph Emerson:
"By the rude bridge
that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's
breeze unfurled.
Here once the embattled
farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard
round the world."
On the backside, the stone has been etched to create the text:
"1775 Nineteenth of April - 1875." www.waymarking.com
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The "Minute Man"
Sculpted by Daniel Chester French, the base is inscribed with the lines of Emerson's poem.
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1775 - American Revolution
First battle of American Revolution fought at Lexington and Concord
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First battle of American Revolution fought at Lexington and Concord
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1826 - At Concord, (Mass.) there is a female, not yet eighteen years old, who is a widow for the second time!genealogybank.com
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17. CONCORD. [Pop. 1,784. Inc 1635.]
The Indian tract called Musketaquid was peacefully purchased of the Indians, and, from this...Read MORE...
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1848 - Concord
In the year 1635, Musketaquid was purchased of the Indians, and called Concord, on account of the...Read MORE...
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1859
CONCORD, the semi-capital of Middlesex co., in Massachusetts, 17 m. NW of Boston, on Concord river. ...Read MORE...
CONCORD, the semi-capital of Middlesex co., in Massachusetts, 17 m. NW of Boston, on Concord river. ...Read MORE...
1872 - Burning of R. W. Emerson's Residence at Concord, Mass.From the Boston Traveller, July 24.
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Concord Massachusetts, 1890
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1916
Concord, a banking post-village of Middlesex co., Mass., is in Concord township (town), on the...Read MORE...
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