Mrs. Amos Wood saved military stores from British capture by insisting that the storage room harbored women. Hannah Barron protected the Provincial Treasurer's chest of money and documents by locking soldiers out of her tavern room.            

The Massachusetts men caught the regulars in a vicious crossfire that killed or wounded roughly 30 men, including three more of the Crown officers. The regulars had no choice but to continue onward.            

This house was owned by Elisha Jones who stored 55 barrels of beef and 1,700 pounds of salt fish in the cellar and shed. A retreating Redcoat tried to shoot Elisha Jones in his shed but missed him by a yard (there is still a hole preserved today under glass.)            

The house was built by Leonard Butterfield and was owned by Dexter Butterfield at the time.            

Mrs. Robinson kept the church commission silver from the British.            

The Medford Company met the British here, then in retreat from the battle of the North Bridge.            

The British troops retreating from the Old North Bridge were attacked here by the men of Concord and neighboring towns and retreated back to Charlestown.            

Around 1:30 p.m., Thorning, a patriot, used this boulder to level his musket to aim at the fleeing Redcoats.

Joseph Lee, who was a town physician, lived on what was called Lee's Hill, and helped to spread the alarm. Several of the men who raised the alarm were physicians since they usually had the best horses to use for visiting the sick.  

About 8 a.m., the Concord men waited here for reinforcements and to see what the British would attempt to do.            

Phoebe Bliss Emerson, the Concord minister's wife, watched the Bridge fight from the Manse.            

The Barrett Farm, a short distance west of the Old North Bridge, includes historic buildings, natural areas and agricultural land. It is a strategically important property that has garnered wide institutional and governmental support. The farm is historically significant as the original destination of the British soldiers who marched to Concord on April 19, 1775, believing that Colonial munitions were stored there. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is also a Local Historic District. The land has remained in continuous agricultural use since Colonial times and is also part of an important open space corridor along the Assabet River.      

Estabrook Woods, Concord’s largest intact natural area, is located in the northern part of town, extends into Carlisle and includes 678 acres owned by Harvard University.
The entire woods area includes land along Lowell Road owned by Middlesex School as well as Bateman’s Pond, Punkatasset Conservation Land, several parcels of Land Conservation Trust property, and smaller parcels. This area, which is largely wooded, was identified as one of seven priority open spaces in the town’s open space and long range plans, and is the largest undeveloped area in Concord. Over 900 acres in Estabrook Woods is considered permanently protected, including the Harvard land.           

Native Americans called the Concord area Musketaquid or Marsh Grass River. The open grassy areas along the Assabet, Sudbury and Concord Rivers were critical to Concord’s earliest residents, important to Concord’s early European settlers, and are still a distinctive landscape type that is highly valued by Concord residents. While there are many flood meadows along Concord’s rivers and streams, the area that is best known and most visible is at the junction of the Sudbury and Assabet Rivers where they meet to form the Concord River. Egg Rock, a distinctive glacial erratic, is located here as well.     

A state prison was established in Concord in 1878. In 1884 it was renamed the Massachusetts Reformatory for Men. The complex, which includes two major correctional institutions (minimum and maximum security), has grown over the years and is now one of the largest properties in Concord, totaling about 300 acres, prominently located along Route 2 and 2A in the western part of town. The Northeast Correctional Center is the minimum-security state prison that includes mid to late 20th century institutional buildings, barns and silos as well as extensive pastureland and pine forest. The 19th century administration building, residences and garden are historic resources that contribute to the character of the community. Stewardship of these historic buildings is a community concern, especially since a row of historic houses built for prison staff along Commonwealth Avenue was demolished in the 1990s. The farmland associated with the property represents a significant portion of the agricultural land in Concord and is also an important scenic resource and a prominent gateway to the community from the west.

The Nine Acre Corner is a rural area that extends along both sides of Sudbury Road roughly from Old Road To Nine Acre Corner south to the Concord/Sudbury line. It is a crossroads in the southern part of town that is valued as a remnant agricultural and natural landscape. Much of the land in this area is still farmed. At the northern end of Nine Acre Corner is a large municipal parcel that extends along Sudbury Road and includes a portion of the wetland area known as Willow Guzzle which lies between Sudbury and Garfield Roads.       

Virginia Road, located in the eastern part of Concord, is one of the oldest roads in town. The easternmost section of the Road is located adjacent to Hanscom Air ForceBase. The road extends from the Air Force Base on the east to Old BedfordRoad on the west, a distance of just over a mile. The road itself is a narrow two lane roadway that has a fairly rural character. Residents identified this road as heritage landscape priority because of the existence of the Thoreau Birth House, the extensive wetlands and the possible impacts of future Hanscom Air Field expansion.          

Walden Woods is a 2,680-acre area in Concord and Lincoln that lies east of theSudbury River. It is characterized by sandy, acidic soils and includes two large ponds, Walden Pond and Sandy Pond, as well as several smaller ponds. Walden Pond is nationally significant for its association with Henry David Thoreau, who built a small cabin near the shore in the 19th century. The pond has twice been included on the National Trust’s list of Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places.

West Concord Village was selected as a priority landscape because it is considered most vulnerable to change. It is a mixed use village area between Route 2 and the Assabet River that reflects its late 19th and early 20th century development.  It has generally been considered secondary to other parts of Concord, but has recently been recognized as a vital and active part of the community with a distinct character of its own that is derived from the mix of buildings and uses, particularly its role as an incubator for small businesses.