Concord Travel Guide

 frank_delargy Says:  It's the real house and it has been converted into a museum of sorts. Famous authors and philosophers Nathaniel Hawthorne & Ralph Waldo Emerson, the author of Nature, a pivotal book in American literature lived here and it is literally a stone throws away from the side of... 

 Jefie Says:  The Old North Bridge stretches across the Concord River and it marks the spot where, on April 19, 1775, the Concord minutemen met with the British troops for the first time. The minutemen were in fact a group of untrained farmers who were ready to fight against the Bristish.... 

 Jefie Says:  Sleepy Hollow is the largest cemetery in Concord. It was designed in 1855 and is mostly famous because of a section called "Author's Ridge", in which all of Concord's famous writers have been buried. Henry David Thoreau (1862), Nathaniel Hawthorne (1864), Ralph Waldo Emerson... 

 Jefie Says:  From July 1845 to September 1847, Henry David Thoreau lived in a small cabin he built himself on a remote spot near Walden Pond. He wrote that he decided to try this experiment because he "wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life". For 2 years,... 

 Jefie Says:  This house was built in 1770 as a parsonage for Rev. William Emerson, the grand-father of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who had chosen this remote location because he wished to live in a quiet and peaceful environment - little did he know that the American Revolutionary War would... 

 Jefie Says:  Orchard House was the home of the Alcott family from 1858 to 1877. At that point, having reconciled herself with the idea that her father's unconventional ideas and unsuccessful ventures meant that she would have to become the family's sole provider, Alcott began working on... 

 Jefie Says:  Three very popular American novelists have lived in this house: Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women", Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of "The House of Seven Gables" and "The Scarlet Letter", and Margaret Sidney, creator of the "Five Little Peppers" children stories. The... 

 davecallahan Says:  On our information-packed trip through history, we took a "minute" to visit Minute Man Park in Concord.Here you find the Minute Man Statue and the place where there was the "shot heard 'round the world" and the bridge where the first skirmishes took place. The first battle... 

 Pawtuxet Says:  We studied the Thomas Pellett house for quite a while. The placque says it was built 1670's - 1728. My son conjectured ... that they finished the exterior walls to make them look older and more interesting than in a more sophisticated and finished fashion. My point of view... 

 Jefie Says:  The Colonial Inn was built at the turn of the 18th century as a private residence. As with most houses in Concord it has its share of literary history since Henry David Thoreau lived there with his family in the 1830s. In 1889, the house was transformed into a hotel and it... 

 Pawtuxet Says:  Just down the road from Concord we come to Sudbury. Here you find Longfellow's Wayside Inn. After publication of "The Tales of a Wayside Inn" in 1863, the Red Horse Inn became Longfellow's Wayside Inn by popular acceptance. It started as a 2 room homestead-turned-inn in... 

 Pawtuxet Says:  I quote from the literature... "Built in 1940 by Henry Ford in memory of his mother-in-law and mother; this non-denominational chapel is one of six Henry Ford built in the U.S. Here is served as daily chapel for the Wayside Inn Boy's School, The Red Stone School House and... 

 Pawtuxet Says:  The people who did gravestones in the 1700's were respected artists who did some very beautiful work. This was a particularly lovely stone. Again, as I mentioned earlier, I am wondering about the mint condition of these stones...and question if they are reproductions. No...