History - Concord Bridge

Patriots Vigil and Dawn Salute 2024 in photos

April 19, 2024

The Patriot Vigil and Dawn Salute annually bring back to life pivotal moments from the launch of the Revolutionary War. Photos by Ken McGagh for The Concord Bridge

Concord on the march

April 16, 2024

Despite flooding that re-routed and rearranged some of Monday's Patriots Day observances, marchers and paradegoers turned out in style.

Is a prisoner a resident of town? Not when it comes to casting a ballot

April 14, 2024

The issue played out in dramatic fashion here nearly 50 years ago when a MCI-Concord inmate ran for office.

Concord played role in Irish Catholic political dynasty’s history

March 17, 2024

Rose Fitzgerald's son, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, would become the first Irish Catholic president and, at 43, the youngest ever elected.

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Old Manse celebrates love and friendship

February 5, 2024

Whether it be romantic or between friends, the love of parents for their children or the pain of lost love, the subject never fails to engage and enchant.

Controversial tercentenary markers removed from Concord Center, Lexington Road

January 25, 2024

Their time was up: Concord’s three surviving tercentenary markers were pulled up Thursday morning. Two of the signs — “The Milldam” and “Jethro’s Tree” — were removed from Concord Center. The other,

From its troubled inception to a riot, a psychedelic experiment, a jailbreak and finally a planned shutdown, here are some highlights of the history of the Commonwealth’s oldest running state prison for

Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of — Tidd and Munroe? Prescott?

January 7, 2024

Everyone knows the story of how Paul Revere rode through the night, broadcasting the alarm throughout Middlesex that the British were headed out to capture the colonists’ stores of weapons and ammunition.