Stone marker commemorates freed slave’s home in Concord’s Town Forest
Stone marker commemorates freed slave’s home in Concord’s Town Forest By Cheryl Lecesse/Staff Writer Wicked Local Concord Posted Aug 27, 2011 @ 02:15 PM Concord — Saturday morning, residents living near the Brister’s Hill portion of the Town Forest, on Walden Street by Route 2, may have eaten their breakfast to an odd whirring sound — the sound of sandblasting on rock.Those who...
Read MoreEngravers create Brister Freeman stone marker in Concord
Aug 27, 2011 @ 02:13 PM Stone engravers Michael Cedrone Jr. and Michael Cedrone Sr. worked Saturday, Aug. 27, to engrave words on a stone marking the approximate location of freed slave Brister Freeman’s house in Concord’s Town Forest. The stone marker is one of many projects the Drinking Gourd Project is undertaking to raise awareness of Concord’s abolitionist and African...
Read MoreCaesar Robbins House in the news – Work continues on historic Caesar Robbins House
Work continues on historic Caesar Robbins House By Amy Carboneau/Staff Writer Posted Jul 21, 2011 @ 03:30 PM Concord — The specks of sawdust shone in the sunlight as the smell of fresh-cut wood danced in the air around the Caesar Robbins House, not quite settled onto its new Monument Street foundation. Temperatures neared 90, even by 10 a.m. It was a hot day to be drilling. Across from the Old...
Read MoreVisit Peter Hutchinson’s Unmarked Grave
In 1881, Peter Hutchinson, last member of Robbins family to live in the house, was the first African-American resident of Concord to vote. He lies in an unmarked grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.One of The Drinking Gourd Project’s goals is to provide engraved headstones for the unmarked graves of African Americans and Abolitionists such as Peter Hutchinson.
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Concord’s Young 19th Century African Activist (Caesar Robbins’Granddaughter) In 1835, Concord bicentennial was held, and the night before, the teacher of public school asked all the children who wanted to walk in the procession to stand. “All arose but one colored girl, a good scholar, and belonging to a respectable family. The teacher asked her if she would not like to go. She...
Read MoreWho Was Caesar Robbins and Why Is His House So Special?
This humble house is a link and a witness to some of the most important and real history that we have. It is the only standing house built by an early African resident of Concord. It in, we have been given a unique gift : the opportunity to create a center where we can teach these stories to our youth and the visitors from across the US and the Globe who come to Concord each year.
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