. Boston, a guide book . over-looked the Hoar family lot andthe beautiful epitaphs placed bythe late Judge Hoar upon themonuments to his father, SamuelHoar, and to his brother, EdwardHoar. The exquisitely appropri-ate inscription ©n the SoldiersMonument in the square was alsoWTitten by Judge Hoar. Return-ing once more to the square, and proceeding thence on MonumentStreet for about half or three quarters of a mile, The Old Manse, where Emerson wrote Nature, and Hawthornelived for a time, is seen on the left, standing back from the study of both Emerson and Hawthorne was a small room a
. Boston, a guide book . over-looked the Hoar family lot andthe beautiful epitaphs placed bythe late Judge Hoar upon themonuments to his father, SamuelHoar, and to his brother, EdwardHoar. The exquisitely appropri-ate inscription ©n the SoldiersMonument in the square was alsoWTitten by Judge Hoar. Return-ing once more to the square, and proceeding thence on MonumentStreet for about half or three quarters of a mile, The Old Manse, where Emerson wrote Nature, and Hawthornelived for a time, is seen on the left, standing back from the study of both Emerson and Hawthorne was a small room at theback of the second floor. This house was built ten years before thebattle at the bridge close by, and was for many generations the home ofthe minister of the village. Nearly opposite is the house of the lateJudge Keyes, dating from before the Revolution, and in the ell of whichmay still be seen the hole through which passed a musket ball fired atsome patriot who was standing in the doorway at the time of the Battle Monument 158 CONCORD The Battle Ground. The wooded lane just beyond the Old Manseleads to the scene of the battle at the Old North Bridge, the story ofwhich is told by the inscriptions on the monuments there. Mostpathetic is the simple inscription which marks the graves of unknownBritish soldiers killed on the spot. Frenchs bronze Minuteman fitlystands on the opposite side of the river, at about the point where theAmericans made their attack. House of the First Minister. If on our way back w^e turn to the rightafter crossing the railroad tracks, and then to the left, we shall pass thesite of the house in which Peter Bulkeley, the first Concord minister,lived, — he who made the bargain with the Indians for the land of Con-cord, which secured to the colonists its peaceful possession. Thisis on Lowell Street, and a few steps farther and facing the square,our starting point, is a low wooden block, a part of which was one ofthe storehouses sacked by the Br
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