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City (pop., 2000: 121,780), western California, U.S. Located near San Francisco , it was laid out in 1868 as Todos Santos and renamed in 1869 for Concord, Mass.
Developed as an orchard and poultry centre after the railroad reached it in 1912, it is now mainly residential.
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City (pop., 2000: 40,687), capital of New Hampshire, U.S. It lies along the Merrimack River above Manchester .
Settled in 1727, the community was incorporated in 1733 by Massachusetts as Rumford but, following bitter litigation, was determined in 1762 to be within the jurisdiction of New Hampshire. Renamed Concord in 1765, it was made the capital in 1808. Printing, carriage making, and granite quarrying were important in its early development; Concord granite is still quarried.
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Town (pop., 2000: 16,993), eastern Massachusetts, U.S. Founded in 1635, it was the first inland Puritan settlement.
In 1775 the British were marching to seize its storehouse of military supplies when they were checked by minutemen (see Battles of Lexington and Concord ). In the 19th century it was a noted cultural centre and the home of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson , Henry David Thoreau , Nathaniel Hawthorne , and Louisa May Alcott (all buried there). Several historic houses are now museums; Walden Pond, where Thoreau lived and wrote, is nearby.