Concord, Massachusetts

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Concord, Massachusetts is a historic New England town best known as the site of the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War and as a center of 19th-century American literature and transcendentalism.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf county seat
municipality
town
associatedMovement American Transcendentalist movement
associatedWith American Revolutionary War
American literary history
Transcendentalism
associatedWork Little Women
Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
surface form: Walden
climateType humid continental climate
country United States of America
surface form: United States
crossedBy Assabet River
Concord River
Sudbury River
dateOfEvent 1775-04-19
distanceToBoston approximately 20 miles west-northwest
foundedBy English colonists
foundedIn 1635
governedBy Select board form of government
hasAreaCode 351
978
hasHistoricDistrict Barrett Farm Historic District
Concord Monument Square–Lexington Road Historic District
hasHistoricSignificance center of 19th-century American literature
center of American transcendentalism
site of early battles of the American Revolutionary War
hasLandmark Concord Museum
Emerson House
Minute Man National Historical Park
Old North Bridge
Orchard House
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
surface form: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts)

Old Manse
surface form: The Old Manse

The Wayside
Walden Pond
hasNotableResident Bronson Alcott
Henry David Thoreau
Louisa May Alcott
Margaret Fuller
surface form: Margaret Fuller (frequent visitor and associate)

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
hasPostalCode 01742
locatedIn Massachusetts
Middlesex County, Massachusetts
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
locatedNear Boston, Massachusetts
namedAfter concept of concord (harmony)
partOf New England
siteOf Battles of Lexington and Concord
surface form: Battle of Concord

North Bridge skirmish

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Middlesex County contains Concord, Massachusetts
subject surface form: Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Ephraim Bull placeOfDeath Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Ephraim Bull residence Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Ephraim Bull namedAfter Concord, Massachusetts
subject surface form: Concord grape
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Ephraim Bull livedIn Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Concord, Lexington, and Lincoln, Massachusetts locatedIn Concord, Massachusetts
subject surface form: Minute Man National Historical Park
Sophia Hawthorne residence Concord, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Provincial Congress convenedAt Concord, Massachusetts
Mr. March settingOfActivity Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts (fictionalized)
Little Women (musical) settingLocation Concord, Massachusetts
Amy Curtis March livesIn Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts (fictional setting)
March setInLocation Concord, Massachusetts
subject surface form: March family
Theodore "Laurie" Laurence setting Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts (fictionalized)
Ellery Channing placeOfDeath Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Ellery Channing residence Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Laurie residesIn Concord, Massachusetts
Acton, Massachusetts, United States borderedBy Concord, Massachusetts
subject surface form: Acton, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Route 2A passesThrough Concord, Massachusetts
Asa Melvin placeOfOrigin Concord, Massachusetts
Asa Melvin placeOfBirth Concord, Massachusetts
Asa Melvin locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Concord, Massachusetts
subject surface form: Melvin Memorial
John Melvin placeOfOrigin Concord, Massachusetts
John Melvin location Concord, Massachusetts
subject surface form: Melvin Memorial
Melvin Brothers Memorial locatedIn Concord, Massachusetts
Melvin family placeOfCommemoration Concord, Massachusetts
Melvin family associatedWith Concord, Massachusetts
Samuel Willard birthPlace Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Samuel Melvin placeOfOrigin Concord, Massachusetts
Samuel Melvin placeOfBurial Concord, Massachusetts
Samuel Melvin residence Concord, Massachusetts
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery locatedIn Concord, Massachusetts
Sudbury River mouthLocation Concord, Massachusetts
Sudbury River flowsThrough Concord, Massachusetts
March sisters setting Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts (fictionalized as Orchard House area)
Katharine Hepburn as Jo March setIn Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts (fictionalized)
Massachusetts Route 225 passesThrough Concord, Massachusetts
Samuel Prescott residence Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts (region)
Walden Woods Project locatedIn Concord, Massachusetts
Daisy Brooke setting Concord, Massachusetts
this entity surface form: Concord, Massachusetts (fictionalized)