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Identifier: historictourpilg00busc (find matches)
Title: An historic tour; a pilgrimage to the birthplace of American liberty, and the homes of our foremost authors
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: (Busch, John J.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel Lexington (Mass.) -- Description and travel Concord (Mass.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston, Hudson printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ow enter Monument Square. Thelarge granite monument was erected in memory of the Con-cord men who lost their lives in the Civil War. The largeelm tree in the square on the right is known as the Town ¥Amunder which the townspeople held their meetings dur-ing the Revolution. Here the Reverend William Emersonaddressed the Muiute Men on the morning of April 19, 1775exhorting them to stand firm for their liberty. On April 19,1812, Dr. William Emerson, a son of the former, addressedthe Cjncord soldiers before their departure for the secondwar with Great Britain. April 19, 1861, just forty-nine yearslater, Ralph Waldo Emerson addressed the Concord soldiersunder the tree before their departure for the South, and againApril 19, 1898, on the eve of the Spanish-American WarDr. Edward Emerson performed the same patriotic duty ashis ancestors. The large boulder on the end of the Green to the leftwas erected in memory of three Concord young men wholost their lives in the invasion of Porto Rico. 30
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CO J2 53 Ou .-cs a ^ c .5 J i ;tki?. ^ The tablet across the square on the left marks the siteof the first town hall which was burned by the British. We are now on Monument street over which the Britishsoldiers marched on their way to the North Bridge. The largeyellow house on the right is the Elisha Jones house, built in1644, better known as the house with the bullet hole. In theell part of the house may be seen a bullet hole made by a British

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  • booksubject:Boston__Mass______Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Lexington__Mass______Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Concord__Mass______Description_and_travel
  • bookpublisher:Boston__Hudson_printing_company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:36
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