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Some of
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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,

Ei.isiiA joNKS noirsE.
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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.
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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
home by the greatest of American writers and thinkers.

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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.

E. W. RUT.I,

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MERIAM S CUKNEK.

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

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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.
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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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H. L. WHITCOMB

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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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Copies made from old Dagueireotypes, Albertypes, or silver
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Landscapes and Interiors photographed artistically.

the best possible

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