Thoreau Country: Location Note

Concord River (or Musketaquid) -
downstream of the village of Concord, Massachusetts

Fisherman at Red Bridge

"Fishing in the river at Red Bridge" (June 10, 1905). [Now the Lowell Road bridge.]

North Bridge and Minute Man Statue

"Minute Man and [North] Bridge from river."   (Sept. 8, 1899.) The site of the "shot heard 'round the world," Emerson's memorable phrase describing the impact of the start of the American Revolution here at the North Bridge and Lexington. Other photos of North Bridge.

"Great Meadows from Flint's Bridge" (June 30, 1917). [Probably looking north from the Monument Street bridge. Poplar Hill may be at right and the Great Meadows themselves may be in the empty space behind the elms it the middle of the picture.]

This photo is entitled simply "Concord River." It accompanies a William Brewster journal entry about the Great Meadows. There is no photographer or date identified. ( From William Brewster's October Farm (Cambridge: 1936 Harvard UP, 1936).

"River Reach from Carlisle Bridge to Ball’s Hill."  (June 11, 1905.)

[If not otherwise credited, these photos are by Herbert W. Gleason, from the archives of the Thoreau Society, Lincoln, Mass. Used with permission.]

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