Thoreau (Henry David) is born in Concord.

Henry David Thoreau moves with his family to 4 Pinckney Street in September 1821, and returns to Concord in 1823. He graduates from Harvard College, teaches school, works as a handyman, and then becomes a poet, essayist and, according to Peter Holloran, “The first environmental writer in America,” Best known for the book he writes about going to live in a cabin next to Walden Pond in 1845,* Thoreau dies in Concord on May 6, 1862, and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. In a eulogy that appears in The Atlantic Monthly, Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, “The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost.”