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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1845/00/00 Ralph Waldo Emerson Owner Emerson allows Henry David Thoreau to live on his property on Walden Pond
1845/03/05 William Ellery Channing (poet) Advisor I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars' - go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. - WEC letter to HDT Walden: Life in the Woods
1845/03/30 Henry David Thoreau Architect Near the end of March, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber. - HDT Walden: Life in the Woods
1845/04/15 By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising. I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, ... an uncommonly fine one. - HDT
1845/05/00 Ralph W Emerson, A Bronson Alcott, William E Channing, George W Curtis, Burrill Curtis, Edmund Hosmer, John Hosmer, Edmund Hosmer Jr and Andrew Hosmer help raise HDT' frame house.
1845/07/04 Henry David Thoreau Home Henry Thoreau goes to live at Walden Pond. "My house makes me think of some mountain houses I have seen, which seemed to have a fresher auroral atmosphere about them, as I fancy of the halls of Olympus."
1845/08/05 Henry David Thoreau Home HDT sends Benjamin Watson fruit: One box is full of red huckleberries warranted not to change their hue, or lose their virtues in any climate.... The other contains half a dozen cherries (Sand Cherries, Bigelow?) The last grew within a rod of my lodge,... Walden: Life in the Woods Red Huckleberry
1845/08/06 I have just been reading a book called The Crescent and the Cross, (Eliot Warburton) till now I am somewhat ashamed of myself. Am I sick, or idle, that I can sacrifice my energy, America, and to-day to this man's ill-remembered and indolent story? - HDT
1845/09/00 Joseph Hosmer (shoemaker) Visitor On his invitation I spent a Sunday at his lake side retreat, as pure and delightful as with my mother. The building was not then finished, the chimney had no beginning - the sides were not battened, or the walls plastered. - J Hosmer
1845/10/00 At Walden Pond, Thoreau completes the first draft of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers".
1845/10/08 Can you not without injurious delay to the shingling give a quarter or a half hour tomorrow morning to the direction of the Carpenter who builds Mrs (Lucy Jackson) Brown's fence? - Ralph W Emerson writes to H Thoreau
1845/10/18 Ralph Waldo Emerson loans Thoreau $7.
1845/11/00 Henry David Thoreau Architect I built the chimney after my hoeing in the fall, before a fire became necessary for warmth, doing my cooking in the meanwhile out of doors on the ground, early in the morning.... HDT Walden: Life in the Woods
1845/12/12 The pond skimmed over on the night of this day, excepting a strip from the bar to the northwest shore. Flint's pond has been frozen for some time. - H D Thoreau's journal
1915/05/00 Julian Hawthorne Work As part of a photo essay assignment where he visits his old Boston, Salem, Cambridge and Concord haunts, Julian Hawthorne places a pebble on Thoreau's cairn at Walden Pond.

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Particulars for Walden Pond:
Area of Significance Literature
Level of Significance National
Criteria Person
Historic Use Single dwelling
Sight Category Site
Owner State
Historic Use Street furniture, object



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 66000790
Resource Type:
Owner: State
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark, National Landmark boundary approved
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Literature
Applicable Criteria: Person
Period of Significance: 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1845, 1847
Associated People: Thoreau,Henry David
Historic Function: Domestic, Landscape
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Street furniture, object
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Conservation area

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