. Concord: some of the things to be seen there ... THciKKAlS CAIRN. half south of thevillage, is reachedby way of \\aldenStreet. Here, ifthe visitor is for-tunate, he maytiiul. without aguide, the spotwhere Thoreaubuilt his house inthe woods, andwhich he cele-brates in the mostchar m i n g a n d river, lives Frank , biographer,essayist, social scien-tist, and poet; and inhis house not longago. died ^^illiam •■ the poetspoet. who for manyyears had made hishome with Mr. San-born. There are someexcursions that thetourist may make fur-ther afield. WaldenPond, a mile and a. RES
. Concord: some of the things to be seen there ... THciKKAlS CAIRN. half south of thevillage, is reachedby way of \\aldenStreet. Here, ifthe visitor is for-tunate, he maytiiul. without aguide, the spotwhere Thoreaubuilt his house inthe woods, andwhich he cele-brates in the mostchar m i n g a n d river, lives Frank , biographer,essayist, social scien-tist, and poet; and inhis house not longago. died ^^illiam •■ the poetspoet. who for manyyears had made hishome with Mr. San-born. There are someexcursions that thetourist may make fur-ther afield. WaldenPond, a mile and a. RESinENCK OK K. H. best known of his books. It is marked by a simple cairn ofstones, which easily escapes observation. On the BarrettsMill road, in the northwest part of the town, two miles anda half from the village, is the old home of Col. James Barrett,to which, on April 19, 1775, the British commander sent twocompanies of soldiers on a predatory errand that after all didnot brilliantly succeed. Not far from there, on the old roadthat runs round the base of Annursnuc Hill, and that wasanciently called Ye Hog-pen Walk, is the site on which stoodone of the buildings used by Harvard College when that insti-tution was temporarily located at Concord during the siege ofBoston. The Hog-pen Walk perforce became the College Road,and is so called to this day. But journeys to these places, andto the countless spots in the woods and on the river, that haveno peculiar historical or legendary associations, are beyond thereach of the transient visitor of a day, for whom this book iswri
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