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Named in 1635, Concord
Massachusetts is an old historic town on the western axis of suburban Boston.
Located at the junction of the Concord/Sudbury/Assabet Rivers, Concord
was settled early by the English as a frontier outpost of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony and was the first interior, non-tidal water town in Massachusetts.
The community had also been the site
of seasonal Indian camps because of the plentiful runs of shad, salmon
and herring. Concord still retains many well-preserved colonial houses,
nine of them on or near Concord green and witnesses of the famous Battle
of Concord. In this historic battle which ushered in the Revolutionary
War, a column of British infantry was badly mauled by colonists during
a 16-mile long running battle that saw 273 British and 95 American dead.
Concord also has a significant literary
history, having been the home of the leaders of the intellectual movements
of 19th century America. Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, Emerson and
Hawthorne lived in Concord at one time or another and Thoreau wrote his
internationally known philosophical treatise at Walden Pond in Concord.
Concord evolved from a frontier town into a prosperous regional center
with a mixed society including small yeoman farmers, affluent gentry and
immigrants from Italy and Norway.
Concord Massachusetts is located
in Eastern Masachusetts, bordered by Maynard and Acton on the west, Carlisle
on the north, Bedford and Lincoln on the east and southeast, and Sudbury
on the south. Concord is 15 miles south of Lowell, 18 miles north of Boston. |