Concord has a long track record of recording its history. After the bicentennial celebrations in 1836, Cummings Davis started collecting artifacts. In 1886, 2000 of these were transferred to the Concord Antiquarian Society. A year later the house of the saddler, Reuben Brown was purchased for the purpose of housing the collection. Through the years, several additions were made to the complex. Highlights of the collections are a spearhead from the Ice Age, Paul Revere's lantern, Henry David Thoreau's desk and spy glass, a recreation of Ralph Waldo Emerson's study and a gallery devoted to Thomas Dugan, a freed slave who became a successful farmer.

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA 01742, Phone: 978-369-9763

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