Concord, Massachusetts Concord, Massachusetts View of Concord's Main Street in December View of Concord's Main Street in December Official seal of Concord, Massachusetts Concord, Massachusetts is positioned in the US Concord, Massachusetts - Concord, Massachusetts Concord (/ k n.k d/, locally / kae.k d/) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the United States.
At the 2010 census, the town populace was 17,668. The United States Enumeration Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston.
The town center is positioned near where the confluence of the Sudbury and Assabet rivers forms the Concord River.
The region which became the town of Concord was originally known as Musketaquid, an Algonquian word for "grassy plain".
It was one of the scenes of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the initial conflict in the American Revolutionary War.
Featured were Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau, all of whose homes are preserved in modern-day Concord.
The now-ubiquitous Concord grape was advanced here.
1.2 Battle of Lexington and Concord 1.4 Concord grape The region 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 territory was lush and arable. However, the region was largely depopulated by the smallpox plague that swept athwart the Americas after the arrival of Europeans. Bulkley was an influential theological prestige who "carried a good number of planters with him into the woods"; Willard was a canny trader who spoke the Algonquian language and had attained the trust of Native Americans. They exchanged wampum, hatchets, knives, cloth, and other useful items for the six-square-mile purchase which formed the basis of the new town, called "Concord" in appreciation of the peaceful acquisition. Main article: Battles of Lexington and Concord The Battle of Lexington and Concord was the first conflict in the American Revolutionary War.
On April 19, 1775, a force of British Army regulars marched from Boston to Concord to capture a cache of arms that was reportedly stored in the town.
Francis Smith advanced to Concord.
There, colonists from Concord and encircling towns (notably a highly drilled business from Acton led by Isaac Davis) repulsed a British detachment at the Old North Bridge and forced the British troops to retreat. Subsequently, militia arriving from athwart the region harried the British troops on their return to Boston, culminating in the Siege of Boston and outbreak of the war.
The battle was initially publicized by the colonists as an example of British brutality and aggression: one colonial broadside decried the "Bloody Butchery of the British Troops." A century later, however, the conflict was remembered proudly by Americans, taking on a patriotic, almost mythic status ("the shot heard 'round the world") in works like the "Concord Hymn" and "Paul Revere's Ride." In 1894 the Lexington Historical Society petitioned the Massachusetts State Legislature to proclaim April 19 as "Lexington Day." Concord countered with "Concord Day." In April 1975, Concord hosted a bicentennial celebration of the battle, featuring an address at the Old North Bridge by President Gerald Ford. Concord has a remarkably rich literary history centered in the mid-nineteenth century around Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 1882), who moved to the town in 1835 and quickly became its most prominent citizen. Emerson, a prosperous lecturer and philosopher, had deep roots in the town: his father Rev.
William Emerson (1769 1811) interval up in Concord before becoming an eminent Boston minister, and his grandfather, William Emerson Sr., witnessed the battle at the North Bridge from his home, and later became a chaplain in the Continental Army. Emerson was at the center of a group of like-minded Transcendentalists living in Concord. Among them were the author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 1864) and the philosopher Bronson Alcott (1799 1888), the father of Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888).
This substantial compilation of literary talent in one small town led Henry James to dub Concord "the biggest little place in America." Among the products of this intellectually stimulating surrounding were Emerson's many essays, including Self-Reliance (1841), Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women (1868), and Hawthorne's story compilation Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). Thoreau famously lived in a small cabin near Walden Pond, where he wrote Walden (1854). After being imprisoned in the Concord jail for refusing to pay taxes in political protest against standardized and the Mexican-American War, Thoreau penned the influential essay "Resistance to Civil Government", popularly known as Civil Disobedience (1849). Evidencing their strong political beliefs through actions, Thoreau and many of his neighbors served as station masters and agents on the Underground Railroad. Central part of Concord, The Wayside home, positioned on Lexington Road, has been home to a number of authors. It was occupied by scientist John Winthrop (1714 1779) when Harvard College was temporarily moved to Concord amid the Revolutionary War. The Wayside was later the home of the Alcott family (who referred to it as "Hillside"); the Alcotts sold it to Hawthorne in 1852, and the family moved into the adjoining Orchard House in 1858.
Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts are buried on Authors' Ridge in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Concord maintains a lively literary culture to this day; notable authors who have called the town home in recent years include Doris Kearns Goodwin, Alan Lightman, Robert B.
Concord grape In 1849 Ephraim Bull advanced the now-ubiquitous Concord grape at his home on Lexington Road, where the initial vine still grows.
Welch's, the first business to sell grape juice, maintains a command posts in Concord. Boston-born Ephraim Wales Bull advanced the Concord grape by experimenting with seeds from some of the native species.
On his farm outside Concord, down the road from the Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Alcott homesteads, he planted some 22,000 seedlings in all, before he had produced the ideal grape.
Early ripening, to escape the killing northern frosts, but with a rich, full-bodied flavor, the hardy Concord grape thrives where European cuttings had floundered to survive.
Bull felt ready to put the first bunches of his Concord grapes before the enhance and won a prize at the Boston Horticultural Society Exhibition.
Bull's ("the father of the Concord grape") Concord grape spread worldwide, bringing him up to $1,000 a cutting, but he died a mostly poor man.
On September 5, 2012, Concord became the first improve in the United States to approve a ban on the sale of water in single-serving plastic bottles.
An editorial in the Los Angeles Times characterized the ban as "born of convoluted reasoning" and "wrongheaded." Some inhabitants have stated that this ban will not do much to affect the revenue of bottled water, which is still highly accessible in the encircling areas, and believe that it restricts consumers' freedom of choice. Opponents also consider the ban to represent unfair targeting of one product in particular, when other, less healthy alternatives such as soda and fruit juice are still readily available in bottled form. Nonetheless, subsequent accomplishments to repeal Concord's plastic bottled water ban have floundered in open town meeting. An accomplishment to repeal Concord's ban on the sale of plastic water bottles was resoundingly defeated at Town Meeting.
The copy has been bubbling in Concord for a several years.
A tombstone in Concord According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 25.9 square miles (67 km2), of which 24.9 square miles (64 km2) is territory and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), or 3.75%, is water.
Massachusetts state routes 2, 2 - A, 62, 126, 119, 111, and 117 pass through Concord.
Concord borders the suburbs of Carlisle, Bedford, Lincoln, Sudbury, Maynard and Acton.
The town center is positioned near the confluence of the Sudbury and Assabet rivers, forming the Concord River, which flows north to the Merrimack River in Lowell.
Concord is positioned in easterly Massachusetts, bordered by a several towns: Concord Source: United States Enumeration records and Population Estimates Program data. Speakers with a Boston accent often pronounce "Concord" with the in the second syllable replaced by ([ k ek d]). Street names in Concord Holy Family Church, and the Old Hill Burying Ground, on Monument Square in Concord Concord Art Association Concord Free Public Library Concord Museum Corinthian Lodge - Egg Rock, where the Concord River forms at the confluence of the Sudbury River and Assabet River, accessible by water or territory Massachusetts Correctional Institution Concord Concord Carlisle Regional High School, the small-town enhance high school Concord Middle School (consisting of two buildings about a mile apart: Sanborn and Peabody) Alcott School, Willard School, and Thoreau School, the small-town enhance elementary schools Concord Academy and Middlesex School, private preliminary schools Commuter rail service to Boston's North Station is provided by the MBTA with two stops in Concord on its Fitchburg Line.
Yankee Lines provides a commuter bus service to Copley Square in Boston from Concord Center.
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