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 Some of the 
 things to be 
 seen tbere 
 
Concord 
 
 Some of 
 the things 
 to he seen 
 there 
 
 TEXT PREPARED BY GEORGE TOLMAN 
 Stcretary of Concord yiniiyutirian Society 
 
 , s^^ REGtlVED V 
 
 H. L. WHITCOMB 
 
 CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS 
 NINETEEN HUNDREIJ THREE 
 
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 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
MONUMENT SQUARE. 
 
 'N September 2 (O. S.), 1(^35. the (General 
 Court of the Colony of the Massachusetts 
 Bay ordered that there should be a " plan- 
 tation at Musketaquid. and that there shall 
 be six miles of land square to belong to it," 
 and that the place should be called Concord. 
 The name Musketaquid, meaning simply the grass-ground, or 
 meadows, was probably already well known, for it is mentioned 
 by William Wood in his •' New f'.ngland's Prospect." printed in 
 England in 1633. I'he place was, or had been, the site of a 
 considerable Indian village, and perhaps for that very reason 
 
appeared a most desirable spot for English settlement. It was 
 well watered by two considerable rivers, which were fnl) of fish, 
 and which flowed through a broad alluvial plain, divided only 
 by a low range of sandy hills, and almost entirely cleared of 
 wood, though the low hills that surrounded it were well wooded 
 and accessible. The population of the colony was then rapidly 
 increasing by immigration, and although no settlement had yet 
 been made away from tide-water, it was still evident that such 
 settlements must be made before long, and desirable locations 
 were eagerly sought. These meadows, the largest expanse of 
 cleared and cultivable ground that had yet been found in the 
 limits of the colony, attracted the attention of Simon Willard, 
 a man of great ability and decision, and it appears quite cer- 
 tain that it was at his instance and through his reports that 
 the company that came hither was formed. 
 
 Of this company, the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, an English 
 clergyman of great learning and ability, who had been de- 
 prived, for non-conformity, by Archbishop Laud, of his living 
 at Odell, Bedfordshire, England, was the spiritual leader, along 
 with the Rev. John Jones. The latter, however, remained here 
 but a few years. The land for the new settlement was fairly 
 bought from its Indian owners, perhaps at a bargain, or as a 
 Concord poet of later days has sung : — 
 
 " A few more jack-knives might perhaps have made 
 A bit less sharp our worthy fathers' trade ; 
 A few more blankets might have shown their hearts 
 "Warmer by some degrees. The casuist starts 
 This point of conscience ; I the question spurn ; 
 The kindliest bosom, exile shall make stern. 
 And days of danger, nights of want and gloom, 
 Brush from the sensibilities the bloom." 
 
But at any rate the land was bought and paid for, and its 
 savaj^e grantors were so well satisfied with their bargain, that 
 in all the Indian wars which followed, Concord was almost 
 the only town in the entire colony that never suffered from an 
 Indian raid upon its territory ; though, to be sure, one farm 
 was raided and one man was killed in " the New Grant," an 
 addition made to the town some years after its settlement, and 
 later set off again. 
 
 It is commonly held that it was this peaceful mode of set- 
 tling its Indian question that gave to the town its name of 
 Concord, a name unknown until that time as the designation 
 of any town, although it has been stated by later inquirers that 
 it was the name that had been given by Peter Bulkeley, long 
 before, to his old English residence at Odell. 
 
 It may be of interest here to mention that the literary 
 history of Concord begins with its political and .social history, 
 and possibly even antedates it. It is maintained by some 
 writers that the William Wood, whose " New England's Pros- 
 pect" was printed in 1633, was identical with the William Wood 
 who died in Concord in 1671. This may not certainly be 
 proved, but even if we have to give him up, we can fall back 
 upon the Rev. Peter Bulkeley as our earliest author, whose 
 book of sermons, preached to his Concord flock, was printed 
 in London, under the title of " The Gospel Covenant," in 1646, 
 and is styled "the first-born of New England." The sermons 
 are hard reading for us of this age, but in their own time were 
 highly appreciated, and passed through several editions. 
 
 But it is not the purpose of this little book even to epito- 
 mize the history of the town, literary or otherwise, but only to 
 serve as a brief guide to the chance visitor or the transient 
 
tourist, who may perhaps choose to purchase it and carry it 
 away with him as a souvenir of what we hope may prove to 
 him a pleasant and memorable visit to one of America's prin- 
 cipal shrines. So we shall presuppose his acquaintance with 
 Concord authors, and with Concord history at least so far as 
 the broader lines thereof, and shall content ourselves with point- 
 ing out the principal places of interest. 
 
 The visitor, however he come to Concord, will naturally 
 start on his tour of observation from the Monument Square, 
 which, it may be remarked, is exactly the geographical centre 
 of the original six miles square granted to the first settlers. 
 In the centre of the square stands the Soldiers' Monument, 
 a granite obelisk bearing on one side of its base the names of 
 the forty- two sons of Concord who perished in the Secession 
 War of forty years ago. On the southwest side of the square 
 a bronze tablet marks the site of the old Town house, which 
 was also the County Court house, from whose turret rang out 
 the bell that called the farmers to arms in the early morning of 
 April 19, 1775. Later on that day the soldiers set fire to the 
 building, only to turn to and use their best efforts to extinguish 
 it again when they learned that the rebels were using it as a 
 storehouse for gunpowder. The old Court house has long 
 passed away, but the vane that swung above it for a century 
 and a half, with the date 1673 carved upon it, is now preserved 
 in the Public Library. Another tablet, a few steps down the 
 Lowell Road, marks the site of the dwelling of the Rev. Mr. 
 Bulkeley. The northwest side of the square is occupied by 
 a row of buildings now kept as a hotel, a part of which was 
 used in the early spring of 1775 as a storehouse for the arms, 
 provisions, and other war material that the patriots had been 
 
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SOT.DrKKs' MOMMKNT (ClVII. WAK). 
 
 busily collecting through the preceding winter. This, however, 
 is scarcely a distinction, for the town had become practically 
 the only commissary depot of the patriots, and almost every 
 hcuse and barn contained a part of these valuable stores, the 
 
destruction of which was the object of General Gage's unsuc- 
 cessful raid of April 19. 
 
 A walk of about half a mile up Monument Street, to the 
 north, brings the visitor to the Old North Bridge, the scene of 
 "Concord Fight." And, by the way, if the visitor desire to 
 
 BATTLE GROUND. 
 
 Stand well with Concord people, he will never allude to this 
 afifair as the Battle of Concord; it is always Concord Fight, 
 here. In 1775 the river was crossed by only two bridges, the 
 second, or " South Bridge," being a mile and a half further up 
 the stream. At the North Bridge, the road on the further bank 
 of the river crossed the meadow, and after reaching the firm 
 
ground divided into two, followini,' parallel with tlie stream in 
 both directions. The point at which tiie I'rovincial forces gatli- 
 ered, on the brow of the hill, three hundred yards beyond the 
 bridge, is marked by a tablet set in the wall, and by a boulder, 
 w ith a suitable inscription, 
 in the grounds of the late 
 Edwin S. Barrett, a great- 
 great-grandson of Col. 
 James Barrett who com- 
 manded the patriot force 
 on the iQlh of April, '75. 
 A few rods to the north is 
 visible the house then 
 occupied by Major John 
 Buttrick, who gave to his 
 troops the first order ever 
 given to American rebels 
 to fire upon the soldiers 
 of their king. The bronze 
 statue of the Minute Man, 
 by Daniel C. French, " the 
 most artistic statue that 
 stands out of doors in 
 America," dedicated by minite man. 
 
 the town on the centennial anniversary of the fight, stands 
 on the spot where this "all-irrevocable order" was given. On 
 the hither side of the stream stands the monument erected 
 by the town in 1836, and bearing the following inscription: — 
 
KF.VOI.ITION \KV MOMMKNT (1SJ56). 
 
i>i) tin- ii)ll> of April 1775 
 
 was made ihe tiist forcible resistance t<i 
 
 British Aggression. 
 
 On the opposite hank stood the American Militia 
 
 Here stood the Invading army, 
 
 and on this spot the first of the enemy fell 
 
 in the War of that Revolution 
 
 which gave Independence to these United Stales. 
 
 Ill gratitude to (lod and in the love of Freedom 
 
 This monument was erected 
 
 .\.l). iS3r). 
 
 The following stanza from Kmersoii's hymn, sung at tlie 
 dedication of this monument, is carved upon the pedestal of 
 the statue of the Minute Man : — 
 
 IJv the rude bridge that arched the finod. 
 
 Their Hag to April's breeze unfurled. 
 Here once the embattled farmers stood, 
 
 .\nd tired the shot heard round the world. 
 
 ULU NUKTII HRIDUL. 
 
A stone in the wall, within a little enclosure, marks the 
 grave of two British soldiers who fell in this first skirmish and 
 were buried by the side of the road, the very first of that great 
 
 army of Britons that 
 England sacrificed 
 in her fruitless en- 
 deavor to subjugate 
 her rebellious colo- 
 nies. 
 
 Just south of the 
 Monument grounds, 
 at the end of a long 
 avenue of once 
 stately but now de- 
 caying trees, stands 
 the house to which 
 Nathaniel H a w - 
 thorne, sixty years ago, gave the name of " the Old Manse," by 
 which, misnomer as it is, the house has been ever since known, 
 at home and abroad. The house was built just before the 
 opening of the Revolutionary War, by Ralph Waldo Emerson's 
 grandfather, the Rev. William Emerson, then minister of 
 Concord, and from its window the reverend gentleman beheld 
 the fight at the bridge. Very early in the war he joined the 
 American army as a chaplain, but was not fated to see much 
 active service, for he died of fever in October, 1776. Many 
 years afterward a monument was erected to his memory in the 
 Hill Burying Ground in Concord. 
 
 After Mr. Emerson's death, the Rev. Ezra Ripley, who had 
 succeeded to the pulpit and had married the widow of his pre- 
 
 ■OLD MANSE. 
 
decessor, occupied the house until his deatli in 1841, after a 
 pastorate of more than sixty-three years, and the house is still 
 owned by his heirs. During; Dr. Ripley's life the house was 
 not only the intellectual centre of Concord, but was a very nota- 
 ble centre of light and learning in the whole intellectual world 
 of New Kngland, for the great Unitarian movement that so 
 powerfully affected the New England church and all later New 
 England literature, came about during his pastorate, and found 
 in him an earnest and active promoter, so that his house was 
 often the meeting place of many of the thinkers and idealists 
 of the time. Here, too, Ralph Waldo Emerson and his brothers, 
 
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grandchildren of Mrs. Ripley, often came, and it was here that 
 many of Emerson's early poems, as well as his first published 
 book. " Nature," were written. But it is frorni Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne's connection with the house, even though such connec- 
 tion was very brief, that the Old Manse, as he named it, is best 
 known. Here he wrote the " Mosses,'' his fist impor»r ' work, 
 the one that foreshadowed his greater literary efforts, nd that 
 showed to the reading world that here was an American writer 
 of imaginative literature who easily "led all the rest." 
 
 Nearly opposite the Manse is " the Elisha Jones house," 
 now occupied by the venerable Judge John S. Keyes, who has 
 
 OLD WRIC.IIT TAVERN. 
 14 
 
all Concord iiistory 
 at his fingers' end^. 
 Though many addi- 
 tions ha\e been 
 made to the origi- 
 nal house, the build- 
 ing may still fairly 
 be called the oldest 
 house in Concord, 
 for the portion 
 erected by John 
 Smedly in 1644 still 
 stands. Near one 
 of the doors of this 
 house may still be 
 seen the hole made 
 by a British bullet 
 fired at Elisha Jones 
 as he was coming 
 out of his door on 
 the m o r n i n g of 
 Concord Fight. 
 
 Retracing his steps to Monument Scjuare, the visitor will 
 see on the corner of Main Street the old Wright Tavern, built 
 in 1747, the headquarters of the patriots in the early morning 
 of April 19, 1775, and later in the day occupied by the British 
 officers. Here Major Pitcairn is said to have made his famous 
 boast, as he stirred his morning dram, that before the day was 
 over he would stir the damned Yankee blood as well. Perhaps 
 he never said it, but at any rate the Yankee blond rctis stirred 
 
 FIKST PARISH MKKTINC. HdUSK. 
 
effectually. The First Parish Meeting House stands next, 
 built in 1 90 1 to replace the ancient structure that had been 
 destroyed by fire in the year 1900. The old building, erected 
 in 17 12, was the meeting place of the first Provincial Congress, 
 
 CONCORD ANTIOUARIAN HOUSE. 
 
 in October, 1774, and a tablet on the edge of the green 
 commemorates this fact. Daniel Bliss the great-grandfather, 
 William Emerson the grandfather, and Ezra Ripley the step- 
 grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson had been successively 
 the ministers of this parish; R. W. Emerson himself had some- 
 
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 times preached from its pulpit, and from the doors of its old 
 house of worship the bodies of Thoreau. Hawthorne, Emerson, 
 Judge K. R. Hoar, Sherman Hoar, and many others of Con- 
 cord's most famous citizens, were borne to the grave. 
 
 The house of the Concord Antiquarian Society stands near, 
 on the left side of Lexington Road. This house was occupied 
 in 1775 by Reuben Brown, a saddler, who made cartridge 
 boxes, belts, and the like for the patriots; and the British 
 soldiers, on the morning of April 19, in endeavoring to destroy 
 the worthy saddler's stock of war material, managed (quite un- 
 intentionally, for they were under strict orders not to injure 
 private property,) to set fire to the house. This was the only 
 private house that was damaged by them in Concord, and the 
 fire was quickly extinguished. Since 1886 the house has been 
 occupied by the Antiquarian Society, and contains a large and 
 varied collection of old china, furniture, and relics, all accumu- 
 lated in Concord, among them the sword of Col. James Barrett, 
 the musket of one of the British soldiers who fell at the North 
 Bridge, the cutlass of 
 a grenadier of the 
 Toth British regi- 
 ment, and other 
 relics of Concord 
 Fight. One room in 
 the house is devoted 
 entirely to Thoreau 
 relics. 
 
 A few rods be- 
 yond, on the right 
 hand side of the road, 
 
ORCHARD Ht)l!SE." 
 
 Stands the home of 
 Emerson, where he 
 lived from 1835 until 
 his death in 1882. It 
 is a comfortable look- 
 ing and unpretentious 
 mansion, of the archi- 
 tectural style of the 
 early part of the nine- 
 teenth century, partly 
 hidden from view by 
 a group of pines. Mr. 
 Emerson's study, the 
 room at the right of the entrance, remains just as he left it, and 
 the entire external ap- 
 pearance of the house 
 is unchanged from 
 what it was when the 
 master was living 
 there. Here was 
 passed the greater 
 part of Mr. Emerson's 
 life after he aban- 
 doned the narrow 
 limits of the pulpit 
 and took for his con- 
 gregation the think- 
 ing men and women 
 of the world, and here 
 
 all his later and ma- concord school of philusupuy. 
 
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I.nriSA M. AI.f'OTT. 
 
turer works were written. No house in America has sheltered 
 so many of the world's literary men, for almost every person 
 of note who has visited America has found that his visit would 
 be incomplete without seeing and being welcomed in his own 
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 A little further on, on the left side of the road, is the 
 " Orchard House," once the home of the Alcotts, and the birth- 
 place of the Ct)ncord School of Philosophy, in 1879. Later 
 tlie little chapel on the hillside, somewhat to the rear of the 
 house, was built, and therein the later sessions of the school 
 
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were held. 'I'he " Wayside," the next house bej-ond, is per- 
 haps better known as the residence of Hawthorne for the last 
 twelve years of his life, than from its connection with the 
 Alcotts, who had lived there several years before Hawthorne, 
 the years that gave to Louisa Alcott the experiences and inci- 
 dents that form the basis of her delightful stories. But the 
 
 stories themselves were 
 written in the Orchard 
 House, or "Apple Slump,"' 
 as Louisa preferred to call 
 it. Hawthorne built the 
 square tower of the Way- 
 side, and from his study 
 in the tower sent forth all 
 his latest books. The 
 larches which shade the 
 hill between the Orchard 
 House and the Wayside 
 were planted by Haw- 
 thorne, and the path worn 
 among them by his restless 
 feet may still be traced. 
 George Par.sons Lathrop, 
 whose wife was Rose Haw- 
 thorne, lived for a time at Wayside, a writer whose early death 
 removed one of the most promising of the younger American 
 men of letters. Daniel Lothrop, the publisher, was a later 
 owner of the place, and here still resides his widow, who. as 
 Margaret Sidney, has acquired merited fame by her charming 
 juvenile books. 
 
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 Possibly the 
 Concord (irape is 
 known to more 
 people than Con- 
 cord Literature, 
 Art, or History. 
 It originated in 
 the garden of 
 P^phraim W. IJull, 
 the next place be- 
 yond the Wayside, 
 and the original 
 vine, whose prog- 
 eny covers nearly 
 every land, still 
 flourishes there. 
 
 Lexington Road, as the visitor will at once notice, runs 
 close to the base of a low sandy ridge from Monument Square 
 to Meriam's Corner, about a half mile below the Wayside. 
 This is the road over which the British force entered the town 
 on the morning of April 19, 1775, and over which they made 
 their so far orderly retreat before noon. After the skirmish at 
 the bridge, the Provincials, knowing that the troops must in- 
 evitably soon retreat, forbore to assail them further where they 
 were, but marched through " the great field " so-called, behind 
 the ridge, and waited at the point of the hill to attack them in 
 flank. The manceuvre was successful, and at this point a sharp 
 encounter took place, in which seven of the enemy fell. From 
 this point the retreat became a rout. The story of it is familiar, 
 and needs not to be entered upon here. A tablet in the wall 
 
 23 
 
marks the spot. The " Virginia Road " joins the old Billerica 
 Road a few rods from this point. On it stands the house in 
 which Henry D. Thoreau was born, but as the house has been 
 moved from its original location and greatly altered, it is only 
 the most enthusiastic or the most leisurely of visitors who will 
 care to take the extra mile walk. 
 
 A w^alk around by the old Billerica Road from Meriam's 
 Corner until he comes to the car track, and then following the 
 car track on Bedford Street toward the left, will take the tourist 
 over the most uninteresting mile and a half of road in all Con- 
 cord, and bring him to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at the point 
 furthest from the town, but not far from the end of Ridge Path, 
 on which are the graves which he will most care to see, that of 
 Emerson, marked by a large boulder of rose quartz, with this 
 inscription : — 
 
 RALPH WALDO 
 EMERSON 
 
 BORN IN BOSTON MAY 25 1 803 
 DIED IN CONCORD APRIL 27 1882 
 
 THE PASSIVE MASTER LENT HIS HAND 
 TO THE VAST SOUL THAT o'eR HIM PLANNED 
 
 the couplet being a quotation from Emerson's own poem, " The 
 Problem ; " that of Hawthorne, surrounded by such fragments 
 of an arbor-vitae hedge as the zeal of souvenir-seeking tourists 
 has allowed to remain standing; those of the Alcott family 
 nearly opposite the Hawthorne lot, and of the Thoreaus almost 
 adjoining. Below, on the hillside, are the graves of the Hoar 
 family, recognizable afar off by the rather ungainly structure of 
 dark granite that marks them. Traversing the length of the 
 cemetery, the tourist will come out on Bedford Street, a few 
 
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rods from Monument 
 Square from which 
 he started. The old 
 1 1 ill l!uryin<;j (Iround, 
 abutting on the 
 Square opposite the 
 end of Main Street, 
 contains many an- 
 cient and curious 
 epitaphs, the oldest 
 bearing the date 
 
 Emerson's grave. 
 
 1677. Here are 
 buried Col. James Barrett and Major Joim JUittrick, the patriot 
 conmianders in Concord 1 -ight ; the Kev. William Kmerson and 
 his father-in-law, the Rev. Daniel Bliss; Dr. John Cuming, 
 whose bequest to Harvard College was the foundation of the 
 Harvard Medical School ; John Jack the Negro, whose epitaph 
 is the most famous epitaph in America : — 
 
 God wills us free, ni;ui wills us slaves, 
 I will as (loci wills, Cod's will he done. 
 
 HK.KE MKS IIIK HODV OK 
 
 JOHN' JACK, 
 
 A native of Africa who died 
 
 March 1773, aged aliout 60 years. 
 
 Tho' born in a hind of slavery 
 
 He was born free. 
 
 Tlio' lie lived in a land of lilierly. 
 
 He lived a slave, 
 
 Till by his honest, tho' stolen labors, 
 
 He acquired the source of slaver)-, 
 
 Which pive him his freedom ; 
 
 Tho' not lonK before 
 
 Death, the prand tyrant, 
 
 (lave him his finiil eman(i|>alion. 
 
 And set him on a footing with kings. 
 
 Tho' a slave to vice. 
 
 He practised those virtues 
 
 Witnout which kings are but slaves. 
 
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I'UIJLIC LIBRARY. 
 
 lie libraries. Besides 
 its 35,000 books, the 
 library contains paint- 
 ings by Edward Sim- 
 mons, Stacy Tolman, 
 Edward W. Emerson, 
 Robertson James, and 
 Alicia Keyes, and 
 busts by Daniel C. 
 Erench, Erank E. El- 
 well, Walton Ricket- 
 son, and Anna Hol- 
 land, all Concord 
 
 A few rods from the 
 Square, at the junction of 
 Main and Sudbury Streets, 
 is the Public Library. The 
 building was erected and 
 given to the town, with 
 funds for its maintenance, 
 a generation ago, by Wil- 
 liam Munroe, a native and 
 citizen of Concord. The 
 town itself pays for the 
 books and the salary of 
 the librarian. A special 
 alcove is devoted entirely 
 to books of Concord 
 authors, a feature unique, 
 we think, among all pub- 
 
 TIIOREA U-ALCOTT HOUSE. 
 
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HKNKV 1>. TIIORKAU 
 
MAIN STKKET. 
 
 artists, as well as a number of paintings and busts by 
 others. 
 
 Continuing up Main Street the visitor will see, just before 
 reaching Thoreau Street, the house in which Henry D. Thoreau 
 lived for the last ten years of his life, and in which he died. 
 Afterward the house was purchased by Louisa Alcott, who lived 
 there for a while with her father and her sister, Mrs. Pratt. 
 Just around the corner, on Thoreau Street, lives Allen French, 
 author of the successful novel, " The Colonials," and of several 
 books for boys. On Elm Street, a few rods beyond the junc- 
 tion of Elm and Main, in a modest house on the edge of the 
 
THciKKAl'S CAIRN. 
 
 half south of the 
 village, is reached 
 by way of \\'alden 
 Street. Here, if 
 the visitor is for- 
 tunate, he may 
 tiiul. without a 
 guide, the spot 
 where Thoreau 
 built his house in 
 the woods, and 
 which he cele- 
 brates in the most 
 char m i n g a n d 
 
 river, lives Frank B. 
 Sanborn, biographer, 
 essayist, social scien- 
 tist, and poet ; and in 
 his house not long 
 ago. died ^^'illiam E. 
 Channing. •■ the poet's 
 poet." who for many 
 years had made his 
 home with Mr. San- 
 born. 
 
 There are some 
 excursions that the 
 tourist may make fur- 
 ther afield. Walden 
 Pond, a mile and a 
 
 RESinENCK OK K. H. SANBORN. 
 29 
 
best known of his books. It is marked by a simple cairn of 
 stones, which easily escapes observation. On the Barrett's 
 Mill road, in the northwest part of the town, two miles and 
 a half from the village, is the old home of Col. James Barrett, 
 to which, on April 19, 1775, the British commander sent two 
 companies of soldiers on a predatory errand that after all did 
 not brilliantly succeed. Not far from there, on the old road 
 that runs round the base of Annursnuc Hill, and that was 
 anciently called " Ye Hog-pen Walk," is the site on which stood 
 one of the buildings used by Harvard College when that insti- 
 tution was temporarily located at Concord during the siege of 
 Boston. The Hog-pen Walk perforce became the College Road, 
 and is so called to this day. But journeys to these places, and 
 to the countless spots in the woods and on the river, that have 
 no peculiar historical or legendary associations, are beyond the 
 reach of the transient visitor of a day, for whom this book is 
 written. 
 
 Copies of Tablets to be found in different parts of the Tow^Dc 
 
 On ti panel cut in F.i^i^ Rock. *^. 
 
 ON THE HILL NASHAWfOcK 
 
 AT THE MEETING OF THE RIVERS 
 
 AND ALONG THE BANK.S 
 
 LIVED THE INDIAN OWNERS OK 
 
 MUSKKTAOUID 
 BEFORE THE WHITE MEN CAME 
 
 On a stone l>y t/ic road, nortlnocst of the A/iinitc Afa)i. 
 
 ON THIS FIELD 
 
 THE MINUTE MEN AND MILITIA 
 
 FORMED BEFORE MARCHING 
 
 DOWN TO THE 
 
 FIGHT AT THE BRIDGE 
 
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Frovinctal Compress Tahlet. 
 
 nfesT PROVINCIAI. CONr.RKSS 
 
 i)K |)KI.K(;ATKS I'KOM THK TOWNS OK 
 
 MASSACHUSKl-rS 
 
 WAS CAI. I.K.I) BY CUNVKNTIONS OK 
 
 THK PKOHI.K TO MKET AT CONCORD ON IHK 
 
 KI.KVKNTH DAY OK OCTOBER 1 774 
 
 THK DKI.ECATES ASSEMBLED HERE 
 
 IN THE MEETINi; HOUSE ON THAT DAY 
 
 AND ORC.AMZED 
 
 WITH loHN HANCOCK AS PRESIDENT 
 
 AND BENJAMIN LINCOLN AS SECRETARY 
 
 CALLED TOC.ETHER TO MAINTAIN 
 
 THE RIC.HTS OK THE PEOPLE 
 
 THIS CON CRESS 
 
 ASSUMED THE (loVERNMENT OK THE PROVINCE 
 
 AND BY ITS MEASURES PREPARED THE WAY 
 
 KOR THE WAR OK THE REVOLUTION 
 
 Ott a panel iit <i stone 'lUest of the Three-Arch hridi^':. 
 
 ON THIS FARM DWELT 
 
 SIMON WILLARD 
 
 ONE OF THE F-OUNDERS OK CONCORD 
 
 WHO DID GOOD SERVICE KOR 
 
 TOWN AND COLONY 
 KOR MORE THAN KORTV YEARS 
 
 Tablet at Mfriarn\i Corner. 
 
 THK BKITISH TROt)PS 
 
 RK.TKEATINC, KRoM THE 
 
 OLD NORTH BRIDC.E 
 
 WERE HERE A1TACKED IN KLANK 
 
 BY THE MEN OK CONC<JRD 
 
 AND NEICHBORINC. TOWNS 
 
 AND DRIVEN UNDER A HOT KIRK 
 
 TO CHAKI.K.STOWN 
 
On a bronze plate on Lowell SU-eet, near the Square. 
 
 HERE IN THE HOUSE OF THE 
 
 REVEREND PETER BULKELEY 
 
 FIRST MINISTER AND ONE OF THE 
 
 FOUNDERS OF THIS TOWN 
 
 A BARGAIN WAS MADE WITH THE 
 
 SQUAW SACHEM THE SAGAMORE TAHATTAWAN 
 
 AND OTHER INDIANS 
 
 WHO THEN SOU) THE RIGHT IN 
 
 THE SIX MILES SQUARE CALLED CONCORD 
 
 TO THE ENGLISH PLANTERS 
 
 AND GAVE THEM PEACEFUL POSSESSION 
 
 OF THE LAND 
 
 A.D. 1636 
 
 On the slate in the rimll of the Hill Burying Ground. 
 
 ON THIS HILL 
 
 THE SETTLERS OF CONCORD 
 
 BUILT THEIR MEETING HOUSE 
 
 NEAR WHICH THEY WERE BURIED 
 
 ON THE SOUTHERN SLOPE OF THE RIDGE 
 
 WERE THEIR DWELLINGS DURING 
 
 THE FIRST WINTER 
 
 BELOW IT THEY LAID OUT 
 
 THEIR FIRST ROAD AND 
 
 ON THE SUMMIT STOOD THE 
 
 LIBERTY POLE OF THE REVOLUTION 
 
 Toivn House Tablet. 
 
 NEAR THIS SPOT STOOD 
 
 THE FIRST TOWN HOUSE 
 
 USED FOR TOWN MEETINGS 
 
 AND THE COUNTY COURTS 
 
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 Concord Souvenir China 
 
 Concord Photographs 
 
 Confectionery, Fancy Goods, Eastman Kodaks and 
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 Concord Antiquarian Society Pamphlets 
 
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 NOIV READY. I. Preliminaries of the Concord Fight 
 
 II. The' Concord Minutemen 
 
 III. IVright's Tavern 
 
 IV. Concord and the Telegraph 
 v. The Story of an Old House 
 
 VI. John Jack the Slave and Daniel Bliss the Tory 
 
 VII. The Plantation at Muskelaquid 
 
 VIII. The Events of April Nineteenth 
 
 IX. How Our Great-Grandfatbers Lived 
 
 X. Indian Relics in Concord 
 
 XI. " Graves and IVorms and Epitaphs " 
 
 Others in preparation 
 
JAMES H. TOLMAN 
 
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