Concord, Massachusetts

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Concord
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Location in Massachusetts
Concord, Massachusetts
Concord
Concord
Basic data
Foundation : 1635
State : United States
State : Massachusetts
County : Middlesex County
Coordinates : 42 ° 28 ′  N , 71 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 28 ′  N , 71 ° 21 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 16,993 (as of: 2000)
Population density : 263.5 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 67.4 km 2  (approx. 26 mi 2 ) of
which 64.5 km 2  (approx. 25 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 43 m
Postal code : 01742
Area code : +1 351,978
FIPS : 25-15060
GNIS ID : 0619398
Website : www.conconstr.org

Concord is a small town in Middlesex County , Massachusetts . The area of ​​the city was first settled in 1635 , and the Parish of Concord was founded that same year.

history

The Old Manse in 1930

According to Henry James , Concord is to American literary history what Weimar is to German. Many of the most important writers of American Romanticism lived here , including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne . Concord was at the time the place of the American neo-idealist movement known as transcendentalism .

Lake Walden Pond is famous , on the banks of which Henry David Thoreau lived in a log cabin for two years. He wrote down his experiences with the simple life in his work Walden . Also known is The Old Manse , which was built by Emerson's grandfather in 1770 and where Ralph Waldo Emerson and later Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife lived. Louisa May Alcott also lived here in the 1860s .

Besides Lexington , the city is also famous as the site of the first battles during the American Revolutionary War .

Media reception

Charles Ives ' most famous piano sonata , the Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass. 1840-60 ” , the sentences of which he named Emerson , Thoreau , Hawthorne and The Alcotts .

Concord and life in the city in the second half of the 19th century are in the film Little Women theme, which in the semi-autobiographical work Little Women the American author Louisa May Alcott is based . In the US series Boston Legal , the city of Concord tries to break away from the United States and strives for independence.

Town twinning

Concord's twin cities are

sons and daughters of the town

Thoreau's hut (replica)

literature

  • Patrick Labriola: From Jena to Concord: the spirit of romanticism in Germany and America . Bonn, Univ., Dissertation, 1996.
  • Robert A. Gross: The Minutemen and Their World , New York 1976, ISBN 0-8090-0120-9 (Social historical study of Concord's minutemen in the 18th century).
  • Philip McFarland, Hawthorne in Concord , Grove Press, New York 2004, p. 149, ISBN 0-8021-1776-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Concord, official page on history ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.concordma.gov
  2. ↑ Siegfried Birle and Peter Ginter: USA / A foray through landscape, culture and everyday life , Vista Point Verlag, 2nd edition, 2001, p. 62.
  3. ^ Samuel A. Schreiner Jr .: The Concord Quartett / Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and the Friendship that freed the american mind , Jon Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2006, p. 16.

Web links

Commons : Concord, Massachusetts  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files