Concord Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Walden Pond

  Walden Pond, all 64.5 acres of it, lies in front of you, a kettle hole left by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago. The water you see is the principal feature of the 335-acre Walden Pond State Reservation, protected and managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

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  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery spreads along Bedford Street, near the center of Concord. This rural cemetery was designed in 1855 by landscape architects Cleveland and Robert Morris Copeland and dedicated on September 29, 1855; Ralph Waldo Emerson gave the dedication speech and would be buried here decades later.

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  Minute man

  Daniel Chester French's Minute Man, an 1874 bronze, rises in front of you in Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord. The bronze figure you see was created between 1871 and 1874 after extensive research; it was originally intended to be made of stone, but the medium was switched to bronze and the statue was cast from ten Civil War-era cannons appropriated by Congress.

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  Old North Bridge

  Spanning the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts, this wooden crossing is the North Bridge, often called the Old North Bridge. On April 19, 1775, provincial minutemen and militia companies numbering approximately 400 engaged roughly 90 British Army troops at this spot.

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  The Old Manse

  Built in 1770 for the Rev. William Emerson, the Old Manse faces you on Monument Street in Concord, Massachusetts. The house is notable for its literary associations and is open to the public as a nonprofit museum owned and operated by the Trustees of Reservations.

All 21 stops

• Monument Square (Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District)

  Picture April 19, 1775, when British troops moved through this square, now part of the Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District.

• Concord Museum (Concord)

  The Concord Museum sits at 53 Cambridge Turnpike in Concord, Massachusetts.

• Concord Free Public Library (Concord)

  Picture William Munroe, the pencil-maker's son, founding this library at 129 Main Street in Concord, Massachusetts.

• Wright's Tavern (center of Concord)

  Wright's Tavern has stood in the center of Concord since Ephraim Jones built it in 1747.

• Concord's Colonial Inn (Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District)

  Colonel James Minot built the eastern section of Concord's Colonial Inn in 1716, and cabinetmaker Ammi White once lived here.

• Thoreau-Alcott House (Concord)

  Here at 255 Main Street in Concord, Massachusetts, you face the Thoreau–Alcott House.

• Orchard House (Concord)

  Orchard House opened to the public on May 27, 1912, and you're looking at the Alcott family's longtime home.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson House (Cambridge Turnpike)

  Ahead of you is the Ralph Waldo Emerson House at 18 Cambridge Turnpike, a National Historic Landmark and house museum.

• Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord Center)

  Sleepy Hollow Cemetery spreads along Bedford Street, near the center of Concord.

• The Wayside (Concord)

  This is the Wayside, a historic house in Concord, Massachusetts.

• The Old Manse (Concord)

  Built in 1770 for the Rev. William Emerson, the Old Manse faces you on Monument Street in Concord, Massachusetts.

• Old North Bridge (Concord)

  Spanning the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts, this wooden crossing is the North Bridge, often called the Old North Bridge.

• Minute man (Minute Man National Historical Park)

  Daniel Chester French's Minute Man, an 1874 bronze, rises in front of you in Minute Man National Historical Park in Concord.

• Col. James Barrett Farm (Concord)

  In front of you is the Col. James Barrett Farm, where Concord's militia gunpowder, weapons and two pairs of bronze cannons were stored in 1775.

• Egg Rock (Concord)

  Egg Rock, an outcrop of Silurian Straw Hollow Diorite, marks the confluence of the Assabet and Sudbury rivers, where they form the Concord River in…

• Nathan Meriam House (Meriam's Corner)

  At Meriam's Corner you face the Nathan Meriam House.

• Reuben Brown House (Concord)

  Saddler Reuben Brown's house of 1725 faces you here in Concord, Massachusetts.

• Farwell Jones House (Concord)

  Lexington Road in Concord brings you to the Farwell Jones House, an early 18th-century home tied to the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord.

• Walden Pond (Concord)

  Walden Pond, all 64.5 acres of it, lies in front of you, a kettle hole left by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago.

• Fairyland Pond (Hapgood Wright Town Forest)

  Inside Hapgood Wright Town Forest, a conservation area in Concord, Massachusetts, you've reached Fairyland Pond.

• Punkatasset Hill (Concord)

  You've reached Punkatasset Hill, 289 feet high.

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