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#1 Concord Museum • 53 Cambridge Turnpike #2 Wright Tavern • 2 Lexington Road The Concord Museum is a gateway to Wright Tavern—now home to offices—is best known for historic Concord’s revolutionary and being at the center of events on April 19, 1775. Over the literary past. Highlights include the course of the 18th century, Concord had become a political 1775 Revere lantern, Daniel Chester and economic center for Middlesex County. Law courts French’s iconic sculptures of the Concord convened here regularly, and good roads, coach service, Minute Man and Abraham Lincoln, and taverns provided for the accommodation of all those Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Study, and who had to attend the court sessions. People not only ate Henry Thoreau’s famed Walden desk. and drank in the taverns, but slept overnight as well, often Open daily year round sharing a bed with strangers. www.concordmuseum.org #3 Concord’s Colonial Inn • 48 Monument Square Rich with furnishings from Concord homes, the Museum’s five period rooms A guest at the Colonial Inn in 1966 reported: offer a glimpse into the domestic lives of “I was awakened in the middle of the night by a presence men and women of Concord. In 1725, in the room—a feeling that some unknown being was in the most expensive items in a household the midst. As I opened my eyes, I saw a grayish figure at the were the textiles or fabrics. These side of my bed, to the left, about four feet away. It was not a include, most importantly, the bed. distinct person, but a shadowy mass in the shape of a standing Placing a bed with ornamental hangings figure. It remained still for a moment, then slowly floated to and a comfortable feather mattress in the parlor showed a the foot of the bed, in front of the fireplace. After pausing a family’s status and wealth. The bed required many yards of few seconds, the apparition slowly melted away.” expensive imported textiles in the hangings and as many as If you’d like to book a haunted room in the Colonial Inn, 55 pounds of feathers in the bolster, pillows, and mattress. ask for Room 24! Visit www.concordscolonialinn.com. Front cover: “Grandfather Emerson’s Bedroom,” by Edward Waldo Forbes. OPEN FOR MORE SITES AND A MAP #4 The Old Manse • 269 Monument Street #6 Thoreau Farm • 341 Virginia Road Birthplace of Henry David Thoreau Built in 1770 for Patriot minister William Emerson, The Old Manse became the center of Concord’s political, literary, Henry David Thoreau slept here as an infant, born on his and social revolutions over the course of the next century. grandmother’s farm in 1817. Of all the 19th-century literary Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia, started their luminaries associated with Concord, Thoreau was the only married life here, and you can still see the poems they one actually born in the town. The house has recently been wrote to each other, etched on the Manse’s second-floor restored and opened to the public for tours. The room where bedroom window panes. The heirloom vegetable garden, Thoreau was born is also available as an inspiring retreat which has been recreated today, was originally planted space where writers can pen their own masterpieces. For by Henry David Thoreau in honor of the Hawthornes’ more information, contact Thoreau Farm at 978.451.0300 or wedding. For more about hours and programs, call www.thoreaufarm.org. 978.369.3909 or visit www.thetrustees.org.
#5 Sleepy Hollow Cemetery • Bedford Street #7 Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House
In 1855, the Town bought 25 acres of farmland and 399 Lexington Road consecrated it as Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in a dedication Visitors enjoy seeing the unique, half-moon desk where ceremony that featured Ralph Waldo Emerson, a member Louisa May Alcott penned her most famous novel, Little of the Cemetery Committee, as the orator. He was followed Women, in the second-floor bedchamber she shared with by William Ellery Channing reading his poem, “Sleepy her older sister, Anna. Around the corner is the bedroom Hollow,” whose “fair pale asters of the season spread their of Louisa’s artistic sister, May Alcott, whose beautiful pen- plumes around this field, fit garden for our tombs.” Sleepy and-ink drawings decorate the walls, doors, and window Hollow was one of the first cemeteries in the United States casings. Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House is open year- to be designed to have an informal, wooded character. The round; for information on hours and programming, call cemetery is open daily sunrise to sunset. 978.369.4118 or visit www.louisamayalcott.org. Visit www.friendsofsleepyhollow.org for more information.
“What pains we take with our beds, robbing the nests of birds & their breasts–this shelter within a shelter...” Henry D. Thoreau, Journal,1846
The bedroom of Louisa May Alcott. Photogaph by Herb K. Barnett, courtesy Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House.