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Concord, MA
Thoreau’s Birthplace:Thoreau was born in a farmhouse on Virginia Road, about a mile and a half from Concord Center. Read More 
Walden Pond:Thoreau lived at Walden Pond from July 4, 1845 until September 6, 1847, when he moved into Ralph Waldo Emerson's house on Lexington Road. Read More 
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery:Thoreau died of turberculosis on May 6, 1862 at the age of 44. He is buried near Emerson, Elizabeth Peabody, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and other luminaries on Authors Ridge in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Read More 
Concord Battleground:"We were soon floating past the first regular battleground of the Revolution, resting on our oars between the still visible abutments of that " North Bridge," over which in April, 1775, rolled the first faint tide of that war, which ceased not, till, as we read on the stone on our right, it 'gave peace to these United States.'" H.D. Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Read More 
Concord Jail:In July 1846, just over a year into his sojourn at Walden, Thoreau was walking into town when he was arrested and taken to jail by Sam Staples, the Concord constable, for failure to pay his poll tax. "It is true," he recounted later, "I might have resisted forcibly...might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party." Read More 
Old Manse:Thoreau planted a garden at the Old Manse as a wedding present to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody when they moved there upon their marriage on July 9, 1842. Read More 
Orchard House:When his close friend, Bronson Alcott, purchased Orchard House in 1857, Thoreau surveyed the property, which he titled “A. Bronson Alcott’s Estate.” Work in progress... Read More 
Concord Center:Thoreau actively participated in political gatherings, lyceum courses, and municipal affairs in Concord throughout his life, starting with his first lecture, "Society," in 1837 and ending with remarks at the Middlesex Anti-Slavery Society meeting on July 15, 1860. Read More |
