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Title: An historic tour; a pilgrimage to the birthplace of American liberty, and the homes of our foremost authors
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: (Busch, John J.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel Lexington (Mass.) -- Description and travel Concord (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Hudson printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nderson, Brownand Loring stopped at an earlier hour of the night by the same patrol, were also taken back with Revere. We are now within the town limits of Concord. Concord was settled in 1635, five years after Boston and is the oldest English town in America settled above tide water. The turn in the road ahead on the right is known as Meniams Corner, as the tablet on the corner reads: The British troops, retreating from the Old North Bridge were here attacked in flank by the men of Concord and neigh-boring towns, and driven under a hot fire to Charlestown. The little white building on our right is the Grapevine cottage, the home of Ephraim Wales Bull, the originator of the Concord Grape. Beside the cottage, under the trellis may be seen the first Concord Grapevine planted in 1853. The many-gabled house next on our right is The Way-side where Hawthorne spent the last twelve years of his life.Here he wrote Tanglewood Tales, Septimus Pelton and the Marble Faun. The Wayside is now owned by Mrs. 24
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Lolhrop, the widow of the Boston publisher, Daniel Lothrop. She, under the name of Margaret Sidney, wrote The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. The tablet in the woods on our right marks Hawthornes favorite path to the study which he had constructed in a mammoth pine tree on the top of the ridge. The outer rowof trees are English Larches and were imported by Haw-thorne from Liverpool when he was United States Consul to that port. Next on the right is the Orchard House the home of Louisa May Alcott. Here she wrote Little Women. The large trees in front of the house she called her Sentinel trees, beneath which she wrote many of her works. In the rear the small wooden building is the School of Philosophy,established by Amos Bronson Alcott in 1879. The next house was the home of Dr. Samuel Prescott who accompanied Paul Revere on his famous ride and who gave the alarm in Concord. Over the hill on the left among the pines is Lake Walden on the shores of which Thoreau built this hut and wrote his famo

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