Discover Concord's Historic District

North Main Street

Fifth Annual Heritage Concord Walking Tour (originally hosted Sunday, May 9, 1993)

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICT

The area of the historic district, a natural terrace above the Merrimack River flood plain, was the first site chosen by Concord's settlers for the nucleus of their village. In 1726 their surveyor, Richard Hazzen, Jr., laid out 71 lots along a main street located close to its present length today. Because the lots were 1 1/2 acres in size, there is a feeling of openness which still exists today. Historically the District is significant as the site of the town's first framed meeting house, as the location of one of the first garrisons or stockades, as the location of the communities first school houses, as the site of the meeting of the first State Legislature in Concord, and as the location of an important religious institution which evolved into the School of Theology of Boston University.

The Following houses are coverd on this walking tour:

  1. The Yellow House
  2. The Kimball-Jenkins House
  3. 268 North Main Street, The Kittridge Place
  4. 270-272 North Main Street
  5. 215 North Main Street
  6. 274 North Main Street
  7. 274 1/2 North Main Street
  8. 217 North Main Street
  9. The Walker-Woodman House
  10. The Gerrish House
  11. The Walker Cottage
  12. Judge Timothy Walker's Store
  13. 231 North Main Street
  14. The Franklin Pierce Manse
  15. Other Buildings
  16. The Concord Water Works

The Tour starts at the intersection of North Main street and Route 3, in Concord. It consists of easy level walk down a wide quiet street with little traffic. This tour should take about half an hour at a liesurely pace, but will take longer if you visit the Kimball-Jenkins House or the Franklen Pierce Manse.

Lets start the tour!

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