Thoreau Country: Location Note

North Bridge, Concord, Mass. - old photographs

This is the view the British Regulars would have had across the North Bridge at the colonial militia and minute men assembling where at the Concord Minute Man statue stands. The bridge is the one built in 1888. The site is now part of the Minuteman National Historical Park. Click for larger version.

Detail below of Daniel Chester French statue of the Concord Minute Man with (photographer's?) horse and buggy.

[The above undated photo of the 1888 bridge and the detail are from a friend's private collection. The photographer was not identified.]

North Bridge and Minute Man Statue from Concord River

"Minute Man and [North] Bridge from river."  (Sept. 8, 1899.) This is the site of the "shot heard 'round the world" as the American Revolution started at here at the North Bridge and at Lexington. [Photo is by Herbert W. Gleason, from the Thoreau Society archives, Lincoln, Mass. Used with permission.]

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