Concord

Concord, a town of Massachusetts, in the county of Middlesex, 23 miles by rail NW. of Boston. It is the seat of a large prison and reformatory. As early as 1767 the people of Concord opposed the measures of the British government, and in the revolutionary war a skirmish took place here, 19th April 1775. The place is notable as having been the home of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and other men of letters. Pop. (1880) 3922; (1885) 3727.