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The wooden bridge that spans the Concord River at the confluence of the Assabet and Sudbury Rivers is a replica of the one that was made famous on the first day of the American War of Independence.
On 19 April 1775, 400 colonists outnumbered the British infantry, forcing them to retreat across the bridge. A shot rang out and history was made.
It was “the shot heard around the world”, as Ralph Waldo Emerson described it.
The original bridge had been built in the 1760s but was dismantled in 1793. The present Old North Bridge was built in 2005. It is situated in the Minute Man Historical Park.
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Old North Bridge
Concord Museum
Minute Man National Historical Park
Sleep Hollow Cemetery
Hapgood Wright Town Forest
Walden Pond
Verrill Farm
The Old Manse
Ralph Waldo Emerson House
Concord Free Public Library
Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge
The Wayside
Concord River
The Robbins House
80 Thoreau
Woods Hill Table
Saltbox Kitchen
Orchard House
Graem Nuts and Chocolate
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