Concord Museum

The Concord Museum, in the town center, houses 19 galleries with furnishings of the revolutionary period and the century that followed. What is particularly interesting in this museum is that each room represents a different period. As you tour these various rooms, guides explain the evolving style of decoration and life as it was lived at the time. Other interesting stops include Orchard House, home of Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women, the home of the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Walden Pond where Henry David Thoreau lived and wrote. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the ancient burial ground for many of these famous citizens, is a suitable finale to the Concord tour.