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Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
Site of the first battle of American Revolution
Concord includes: East Quarter, Lake Walden, North Postal Annex, Pine Ridge Station, Reformatory Station, and Westvale.
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Old Photos, Pictures, Advertisements and Postcards from Concord, Massachusetts, USA

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Old Chapter House, 1708.
The earliest sections of the Thomas Pellet House, off Monument Square and across from the First Parish Church in Concord, date to 1670. The house has had a number of additions, much of the present structure being... Read MORE...

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Unitarian Church
Where First Colonial Congress Met
Concord’s Unitarian-Universalist church was first gathered in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Its first ministers, Peter Bulkeley and John Jones, were formally installed in 1637, in... Read MORE...

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Colonial Inn
1716 – Concord’s Colonial Inn’s original structure was built.
1775 – One of the Inn’s original buildings was used as a storehouse for arms and provisions during the Revolutionary War. When the British came to seize and destroy the ... Read MORE...

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Hancock Clarke House
The Hancock–Clarke House is a historic house in Lexington, Massachusetts, that is a National Historic Landmark. Built in 1738, the house is notable as the only surviving house associated with statesman John Hancock, who lived ... Read MORE...
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Jones House, The House of the Bulleton
...it was probably built sometime around 1740 as the home of Thomas Jones, a blacksmith who lived here until his death in 1774. His son Elisha then inherited the property, and he went on to become perhaps... Read MORE...
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The Old Manse
"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,... Read MORE...
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Old Middlesex Hotel
The Middlesex Hotel—once located at the corner of Main Street and Monument Square, opposite the Wright Tavern—thrived as a center of county and town life for decades during the nineteenth century. It provided food, drink, and... Read MORE...

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The Fight at the Bridge, 1776
Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.

Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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School of Philosophy, 1907
The Concord School of Philosophy was a lyceum-like series of summer lectures and discussions of philosophy in Concord, Massachusetts from 1879 to 1888.
Starting the Concord School of Philosophy had long been a goal... Read MORE...
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The Alcott House
"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... Read MORE...
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Emerson House, Concord, Massachusetts
In July 1835 Ralph Waldo Emerson purchased his Concord home, proclaiming it was “the only good cellar that had been built in Concord.” ralphwaldoemersonhouse.org
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Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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Concord River, By Thoreau's Landing, 1898
Historic Towns of New England. (1898). United Kingdom: G. P. Putnam's sons.

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Old North Bridge showing Minute Man Statue and Battle Green, Concord, Mass.

Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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Hawthorne's Wayside, Concord, Mass.
"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... Read MORE...
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Wright Tavern, Concord, Mass.
"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... Read MORE...

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Ware Hall, Middlesex School
Middlesex School is a coeducational, non-sectarian, day and boarding independent secondary school for grades 9-12 located in Concord, Massachusetts. It was founded as an all-boys school in 1901 by a Roxbury Latin... Read MORE...

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The "Minute Man"
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... Read MORE...
History, News and Stories of Concord, Massachusetts, USA

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1635 - Concord is settled and incorporated
Massachusetts City and Town Incorporation and Settlement Dates
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Concord: A History
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1775 - American Revolution
First battle of American Revolution fought at Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American... Read MORE...
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1791 - March 10 - John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
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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!
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Baltimore Patriot
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August 10, 1826
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1839 - Concord
Concord, Massachusetts
One of the chief towns of Middlesex county. This town is situated on the river of the same name, 17 miles W.N.W. from Boston, ... Read MORE...
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1845 - CONCORD. [Pop. 1,784. Inc 1635.]
The Indian tract called Musketaquid was peacefully purchased of the Indians, and, from this circumstance, called Concord.
Concord... 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 peaceable manner in which it was obtained, as... Read MORE...
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1854 - Concord
Concord, a post-village and semi-capital of Middlesex county, Mass., on the Fitchburg railroad, 20 miles N. W. from Boston, has 1 bank. The township... Read MORE...
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1859
CONCORD, the semi-capital of Middlesex co., in Massachusetts, 17 m. NW of Boston, on Concord river. Pop. 1,784.
A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859
1872 - Burning of R. W. Emerson's Residence at Concord, Mass.
From the Boston Traveller, July 24.
The homestead occupied by Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Concord, was entirely destroyed by fire this morning,... Read MORE...
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Concord Massachusetts, 1890
Concord, the scene of our first triumph in the conflict that made us a nation, is situated in the central part of Middlesex County, 18 miles... Read MORE...
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1895 - Concord
Concord, a post-village of Middlesex co, Mass, is in Concord township, on the Concord River, at the junction of the Assabet and £ Rivers, 20 miles... Read MORE...
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1916
Concord, a banking post-village of Middlesex co., Mass., is in Concord township (town), on the Concord River, here formed by the junction of the... Read MORE...
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