Letter to the Editor
The Drinking Gourd Project currently is leading an effort to restore the Caesar Robbins house, built in 1780 by a freed man and Revolutionary War patriot, to be used as an education center focused on Concord’s African and Abolitionist history. You can help this effort by coming to Town Meeting and voting yes on Article 35 for CPC funding and Article 36 to lease land next to the North Bridge parking lot as the new location of the Robbins House Education Center.
Community Preservation Committee Supports Caesar Robbins House
PRESS RELEASEContact: Liz ClaytonThe Drinking Gourd Project107 Brister’s Hill Rd., Concord MA 01742978.318.3910 Community Preservation Committee Supports Caesar Robbins House The Drinking Gourd Project (DGP) received a strong show of support from the Community Preservation Committee (CPC), this past week. In a letter from the CPC to the Project members, the CPC recommended funding for [...]
Caesar Robbins House listed amongst Massachusetts Most Endangered Historic Resources
September 15, 2009Contact: Jim Igoe or Erin Kelly, 617-723-3383Historic house in Concord, home to several generations of early African-American families faces extremely unstable future, and impending demolitionThe Caesar Robbins House in Concord has been named one of Massachusetts’ “Most Endangered Historic Resources”. Since 1993, this list is compiled annually by Preservation Massachusetts, the state’s historic [...]
Caesar Robbins
Caesar Robbins was enslaved in Concord until the Revolution, after which he lived on the edge of the Great Field with his wife Catherine, by approval of nearby landowner Humphrey Barrett. Two of their children, Peter Robbins and Susan Robbins Garrison, raised large families here. Caesar Robins’ first house passed out of African Ownership in [...]