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Article: CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS, CLOCKMAKERS, 1789-1817.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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The town of Concord, Massachusetts, which Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) admired in the 1830s for the "luke warm milky dog-days of common village life," [1] was quite a different place twenty-five years earlier when it was home to seven clockmakers. Their shops ware on Main Street and on the Milldam, along with a brass foundry, an iron forge with a trip-hammer and wiredrawing mill and several cabinetmakers. [2] The center of town was a machine for the production of clocks. [3] Concord had several qualifications beneficial to trade in that period. It had a prosperous agricultural economy; it was located along good roads; and it was a half-shire town for Middlesex County, ...
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