About Concord, Massachusetts

Concord is a town of 18,491 people in Middlesex County, where the Assabet and Sudbury rivers join to form the Concord River. Native people called the place Musketaquid, an Algonquian word for "grassy plain," and they grew corn there until smallpox emptied much of the area in 1633. Two years later the General Court granted the land to a group of English colonists under Rev. Peter Bulkeley and Major Simon Willard. They paid the Squaw Sachem of Mistick in wampum, hatchets, knives and cloth for six square miles, and they named the town Concord because the deal had been peaceful. It was New England's first inland colonial settlement, and by 1775 it had 1,400 people.

On April 19, 1775, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith led 700 British troops out of Boston to seize the militia's arms in Concord, but Patriot leaders had already hidden most of them elsewhere. After a deadly clash at Lexington, the soldiers split into companies to search the town. At 11:00 in the morning, 400 minutemen met 100 of them at the North Bridge, and the British fell back with casualties on both sides. Minutemen harried the column all the way to Charlestown and then sealed it off, which began the siege of Boston. Emerson's 1837 poem "Concord Hymn" called that volley "the shot heard round the world."

“the biggest little place in America.”
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  • Patriots' Day, a compromiseIn 1894 the Lexington Historical Society asked the Massachusetts legislature to name April 19 Lexington Day, and Concord answered by proposing Concord Day. Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge settled the quarrel by calling it Patriots' Day instead. For the battle's bicentennial in April 1975, President Gerald Ford gave an address at the Old North Bridge.
  • Emerson's Concord circleRalph Waldo Emerson, whose grandfather watched the 1775 fight from his house, settled here in 1835. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson Alcott and Concord-born Henry David Thoreau joined him. Their circle produced Self-Reliance in 1841, Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846, Walden in 1854 and Little Women in 1868. Thoreau, jailed here for refusing taxes to protest slavery and the Mexican-American War, wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. They lie on Sleepy Hollow Cemetery's Authors Ridge.
  • The Wayside's many authorsDuring the Revolution, when Harvard College moved to Concord for a time, the scientist John Winthrop lived in this Lexington Road house. The Alcotts later lived there and called it Hillside, then sold it to Hawthorne in 1852 and moved next door to Orchard House in 1858. Hawthorne renamed it The Wayside and stayed until he died. In 1883 publisher Daniel Lothrop bought it. Harriett, his wife, was the author of the Five Little Peppers books, written as Margaret Sidney.
  • The Concord grape, 1849Boston-born Ephraim Wales Bull grew some 22,000 seedlings from native grape seeds at his Lexington Road home, looking for a hardy grape that ripened before the northern frosts. He found it in 1849 and won a prize with it at the Boston Horticultural Society Exhibition in 1853. Cuttings later sold for up to $1,000 each, yet Bull died fairly poor. Welch's, the first company to sell grape juice, kept its headquarters in Concord until 2025.
  • First to ban bottled waterConcord fought over bottled water for years. The state attorney general threw out a 2010 town meeting ban, and a 2011 try lost 265 to 272. A 403 to 364 vote on September 5, 2012, made Concord the first U.S. community to bar sales of single-serving plastic water bottles of one liter or less, starting January 1, 2013. A repeal failed 621 to 687. Jean Hill, 86, who led the fight, said she had really accomplished something.

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Names on the Concord map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks21

  • Downtown
  • Annursnac Hill
  • Authors Ridge
  • Balls Hill
  • Bedford Levels
  • Angiers Pond
  • Assabet River Reservoir
  • Flints Pond
  • Farrar Pond
  • Brewster's Woods
  • Estabrook Woods
  • Hapgood Wright Town Forest
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  • Hutchins Farm
  • Miller Farm
  • Old Rifle Range
  • Seton Woods
  • Wright Woods
  • Meriams Corner
  • Nine Acre Corner
  • Plain
  • West Concord

Streets and roads148

  • Union Turnpike
  • Concord Turnpike
  • Fitchburg Turnpike
  • Main Street
  • Bedford Street
  • Elm Street
  • Old Bedford Road
  • Walden Street
  • Lexington Road
  • Commonwealth Avenue
  • Powder Mill Road
  • Barretts Mill Road
  • Simon Willard Road
  • Old Pickard Road
  • Sudbury Road
  • Monument Street
  • Lowell Road
  • Old Marlboro Road
  • Old Road To 9 Acre Corner
  • Strawberry Hill Road
  • Fairhaven Road
  • Annursnac Hill Road
  • Virginia Road
  • Cambridge Turnpike
  • Harrington Avenue
  • Thoreau Street
  • Garfield Road
  • Hugh Cargill Road
  • Plainfield Road
  • Laws Brook Road
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  • Estabrook Road
  • Westford Road
  • Nathan Pratt Drive
  • Williams Road
  • Deacon Haynes Road
  • Great Meadows Road
  • Lindsay Pond Road
  • Heaths Bridge Road
  • Caterina Heights
  • Old Stow Road
  • Nashoba Road
  • Ministerial Drive
  • Elsinore Street
  • Liberty Street
  • Central Street
  • Hunters Ridge Road
  • Shadyside Avenue
  • Balls Hill Road
  • Indian Pipe Lane
  • Monsen Road
  • Park Lane
  • North Meadows
  • Hubbard Street
  • Conant Street
  • Laurel Street
  • Assabet Avenue
  • Riverside Avenue
  • Wheeler Road
  • Riverdale Road
  • Nimrod Drive
  • Carr Road
  • Ash Street
  • Adin Drive
  • Wright Farm
  • College Road
  • Nashawtuc Road
  • Hayward Mill Road
  • Border Road
  • Mattison Drive
  • Silver Hill Road
  • The Valley Road
  • Holden Wood Road
  • Old Mill Road
  • Baker Avenue
  • Sandy Pond Road
  • Prairie Street
  • Hawthorne Lane
  • Barnes Hill Road
  • Hill Street
  • Oak Hill Circle
  • Monument Farm Road
  • Wright Road
  • Arena Terrace
  • Alcott Road
  • Tanglewood Drive
  • Bartkus Farm
  • Indian Spring Road
  • Spencer Brook Road
  • Pine Street
  • Lanes End
  • Lawrence Drive
  • Minot Road
  • Anson Road
  • Farmers Cliff Road
  • Sorrel Road
  • Far Afield
  • Martin Road
  • Highland Street
  • Dover Street
  • Blueberry Lane
  • Hartwell Road
  • Channing Road
  • Ledge Rock Road
  • Lee Drive
  • Finigan Way
  • Turning Mill Road
  • Spring Road
  • Potter Street
  • Dalton Road
  • Oak Road
  • Pond Lane
  • White Avenue
  • Wood Street
  • Fairhaven Hill Road
  • Peter Spring Road
  • Range Road
  • Baker Avenue Extended
  • Cottage Street
  • Paul Revere Road
  • Fuller Lane
  • Kenney Lane
  • North Branch Road
  • Garland Road
  • Macarthur Road
  • Lang Street
  • Court Lane
  • Pope Road
  • Pond Street
  • Musketaquid Road
  • Musterfield Road
  • Southfield Road
  • Stone Root Lane
  • Mildred Circle
  • Keyes Road
  • Hillcrest Road
  • Prescott Road
  • Adams Road
  • Bateman's Ridge
  • Wilson Road
  • Ripley Hill Road
  • Bradford Street
  • Manuel Drive
  • Deaconess Road
  • Autumn Lane
  • King Lane
  • Whits End Road
  • Drum Hill Road
  • Dee Road

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