Concord, Massachusetts

Concord is a history-laden, small town 22 miles west of Boston.  It is famous for being the scene of the first armed resistance in 1775 to the British crown that was the beginning of the Revolutionary War.  

The Old North Bridge and the Minute Men statue mark this first battle.  Minute Men were volunteer militiamen to be ready at a moment’s notice to defend their townsfolk.

The town is also the birthplace and residency of famous American writers such as Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott.  Her Orchard House, where she wrote Little Women in 1868 and where she died 20 years later, is preserved and open for tours.