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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
The Old Manse
Built in 1770 for patriot minister William Emerson, The Old Manse, a
National Historic Landmark, became the center of Concord’s political,
literary, and social revolutions over the course of the next century. In
the mid-19th-century, leading Transcendentalists such as Bronson
Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller discussed the issues of
the day here, with the Hawthorne and Ripley families.
A handsome
Georgian clapboard building, The Old Manse sits near the banks of the
Concord River among rolling fields edged by centuries-old stone walls
and graced by an orchard. From upstairs, you can look out over the North
Bridge, where the famous battle of April 19, 1775, took place.
Sunday, November 2, 2014
The Caesar Robbins House
The Robbins House is a home built by the son of slavery survivor and Revolutionary War veteran Caesar Robbins in the early 1800s. This house was originally located on a small farm at the edge of Concord’s Great Meadows, in an area where a handful of self-emancipated Africans and their families established their homes. The last African American occupants left the house in the 1860s, and in the winter of 1870-71 the building was moved to Bedford St. In 2011 the Drinking Gourd Project moved the house to land adjacent to the North Bridge parking lot, where it is prominently displayed for Concord visitors. It will serve as an interpretive center for Concord’s early African history.
-http://drinkinggourdproject.org/projects/robbins-house/
Sunday, October 19, 2014
The Hartwell Tavern
Minute Man National Park.
Built c.1732-1722
Link-http://www.nps.gov/mima/hartwell-tavern.htm
Labels:
Colonial,
Concord,
Historic,
Historic New England,
Lexington,
Massachusetts,
Minute Man,
Minute Man National Park,
National Park,
Revolutionary War,
Tavern
Location:
Concord, MA, USA
Sunday, October 12, 2014
The Sayward Wheeler House
-Built C.1718
"The Sayward-Wheeler House is a historic house museum at 9 Barrett Lane Extension in York Harbor, Maine, USA. Built c. 1718, it was the home of Jonathan Sayward, a local merchant and civic leader, who remodeled and furnished the house in the 1760s according to his own conservative taste.
Sayward participated in the attack on the French fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, in 1745, served in the Massachusetts legislature, and, despite outspoken Tory views, retained the respect of his neighbors during the Revolution."
-http://www.historicnewengland.org/historic-properties/homes/sayward-wheeler-house
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayward-Wheeler_House
Saturday, October 11, 2014
The Old Custom House and Pacific Club
"The historic brick building at the foot of Main Street that began life in 1772 as the counting house of prosperous whaling merchant William Rotch fought the Great Fire of 1846 to a draw. Its interior was gutted and charred, but its brick shell unbowed.
"It’s survived countless brutal winters whose freezing and thawing cracked its masonry, smaller fires on all three of its floors, and numerous tenants from the Chamber of Commerce and the county court to a pair of television stations and a photographer’s studio."
http://www.nantuckettodayonline.com/archives/whatever-happened-to-the-pacific-club/
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
Captain James Winn House
Historic Capt. Winn House, Oguquit Maine.
Ogunquit Heritage Museum
86 Obeds Lane
Ogunquit, Maine 03907
207–646–0296
Free and Open to the public
1 – 5 P.M., Tuesday – Saturday
June through September
Contact us at:
Thursday, September 25, 2014
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