Recent Acquisitions

Dinner plate commemorating the battle at the North Bridge

The Concord Museum continues to collect, and in recent years has added some important artifacts of Concord's history to the collection. A selected list of recent acquisitions includes:

• A powder horn used by minuteman Willard Parks during the battle at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775
• A set of porcelain dinner plates commissioned by Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant, for a banquet in Concord attended by Grant to commemorate the centennial of the battle at the North Bridge
• A collection of the papers, account books, and pencils made by William Munroe, a cabinetmaker and pencil maker in Concord in the early 19th century who worked with his brothers making cases for eight-day clocks
• An ornate silver tea service, made about 1850 and used by the Damon family of Concord
• An artillery driver's saddle, bridle, and leg protector issued to the Concord Artillery Company for use during the Civil War

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