Concord, Massachusetts
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1635 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | Massachusetts | |
County : | Middlesex County | |
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 |
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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
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
- San Marcos (Nicaragua)
- Saint-Mandé ( France )
- Nanae (Hokkaido) ( Japan )
sons and daughters of the town
- Samuel Prescott (1751–1777), one of the patriots in the American War of Independence
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), writer and philosopher
- Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), writer and philosopher
- William Watson Goodwin (1831-1912), classical philologist
- Edward Waldo Emerson (1844–1930), physician, author and lecturer
- Robert Williams Wood (1868–1955), experimental physicist
- Blanche Emile Wheeler (1870–1936), archaeologist
- Robin Moore (1925–2008), author and screenwriter
- Gordon S. Wood (born 1933), historian
- Cass Sunstein (* 1954), Professor of Law
- Carol Twombly (* 1959), type designer
- Steve Carell (born 1962), actor and comedian
- Clint Bajakian (* 1963), composer for computer games
- Bob Sweeney (born 1964), ice hockey player
- Peter Murnik (* 1965), actor
- Tom Glavine (born 1966), baseball player
- Paget Brewster (born 1969), actress
- Austin Grossman (* 1969), book author and game developer
- Simon Cote (* 1971), basketball coach
- Vicki Movsessian (* 1972), ice hockey player
- Dean Rosenthal (* 1974), composer
- Hal Gill (born 1975), ice hockey player
- Laurie Baker (* 1976), ice hockey player and coach
- Greg Marcks (* 1976), filmmaker
- Gennifer Hutchison (* 1977), screenwriter and television producer
- Andrew McMahon (* 1982), singer and songwriter
- Jenna Parker (* 1984), actress, formerly a triathlete
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
- ↑ 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. .
- ↑ Siegfried Birle and Peter Ginter: USA / A foray through landscape, culture and everyday life , Vista Point Verlag, 2nd edition, 2001, p. 62.
- ^ 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.