Massachusetts
Middlesex
Town of Concord

Concord

Maybe you’ve never heard of sleepy Concord population 18,000, but your life has certainly been impacted by it. This is where "the shot heard round the world" was fired in the spring of 1775, setting off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the creation of the United States.
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  • Type: Town with 16,800 residents
  • Description: town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Concord Centre”, “Concord, MA”, “Concord, Massachusetts”, and “Musketequid”
  • Postal code: 01742

Places of Interest

Highlights include Concord School of Philosophy and Old North Bridge.

Museum
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The was a lyceum-like series of summer lectures and discussions of philosophy in Concord, Massachusetts, from 1879 to 1888.

Bridge
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The North Bridge, often colloquially called the , is a historic site in Concord, Massachusetts, spanning the . On April 19, 1775, the first day of the American Revolutionary War, provincial minutemen and militia companies numbering approximately 400 engaged roughly 90 British Army troops at this location.

Museum
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is a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts, United States, opened to the public on May 27, 1912. It was the longtime home of Amos Bronson Alcott and his family, including his daughter Louisa May Alcott, who wrote and set her novel Little Women there.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Concord.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Concord in , , United States. The population was 6,320 at the 2020 census. is situated 2½ miles west of Concord.

Concord

Latitude
42.4605° or 42° 27′ 38″ north
Longitude
-71.3489° or 71° 20′ 56″ west
Population
16,800
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US CCF
Open location code
87JCFM62+6C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158857450
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4933743
Wiki­data ID
Q523240
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Concord” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Afrikaans: “Concord”
  • Arabic: “كونكورد”
  • Armenian: “Կոնկորդ”
  • Asturian: “Concord”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konkord”
  • Basque: “Concord”
  • Belarusian: “Канкорд”
  • Belarusian: “Конкард”
  • Bulgarian: “Конкорд”
  • Catalan: “Concord”
  • Cebuano: “Concord”
  • Chechen: “Конкорд”
  • Chinese: “Concord”
  • Chinese: “康科德”
  • Chinese: “康科特”
  • Czech: “Concord”
  • Danish: “Concord”
  • Dutch: “Concord”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كونكورد”
  • Esperanto: “Concord”
  • Esperanto: “Konkordo”
  • Faroese: “Concord”
  • Finnish: “Concord”
  • French: “Concord”
  • Galician: “Concord”
  • Georgian: “კონკორდი”
  • German: “Concord”
  • Greek: “Κόνκορντ”
  • Haitian: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Concord”
  • Hausa: “Garin concord”
  • Hebrew: “קונקורד”
  • Hungarian: “Concord”
  • Ido: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Ido: “Concord”
  • Irish: “Concord”
  • Italian: “Concord”
  • Japanese: “コンコード”
  • Kazakh: “Конкорд”
  • Kirghiz: “Конкорд”
  • Korean: “콩코드”
  • Latin: “Concordia”
  • Mazanderani: “کنکورد (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “کنکورد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Concord”
  • Moksha: “Конкорд (Массачусэтс)”
  • Moksha: “Конкорд”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Concord”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Concord i Massachusetts”
  • Norwegian: “Concord”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Concord”
  • Persian: “کنکورد”
  • Persian: “کونکورد، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “کونکورد”
  • Polish: “Concord”
  • Portuguese: “Concord”
  • Romanian: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Concord”
  • Russian: “Конкорд”
  • Sardinian: “Concord”
  • Silesian: “Concord”
  • Slovak: “Concord”
  • Slovenian: “Concord”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کونکورد، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Concord (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Concord”
  • Swahili: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Concord”
  • Swedish: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Concord”
  • Tatar: “Конкорд”
  • Turkish: “Concord, MA”
  • Turkish: “Concord, Mass.”
  • Turkish: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Concord”
  • Ukrainian: “Конкорд”
  • Urdu: “کونکورڈ، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “کونکورڈ”
  • Volapük: “Concord”
  • Welsh: “Concord, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Concord”
  • Western Frisian: “Concord”
  • Yiddish: “קאנקארד”

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