Concord History - Concord Public Library

Nathaniel Bouton's The History of Concord, From Its First Grant in 1725 To The Organization Of The City Goverment in 1853, With a History Of The Ancient Penacooks, published in Concord by Benning W. Sanborn in 1856, is now online full-text. A special section includes Physical History and a Statistical Chapter.

Main Street of Historic Concord, looking South from Park Street

James O. Lyford's History of Concord New Hampshire From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century, Volume 1 is available online full-text. Lyford's History was published by the Rumford Press in Concord, New Hampshire in 1903.

James O. Lyford's History of Concord New Hampshire From the Original Grant in Seventeen Hundred and Twenty-Five to the Opening of the Twentieth Century, Volume 2. In Volume 2, Lyford discusses church history, the history of Concord schools, and trades and professions.

A photograph of early Concord taken from the Grace Amsden collection

Grace P. Amsden's three volume A Capital for New Hampshire is a manuscript account of life in Concord through the middle part of the 20th century. This invaluable, unpublished resource tells stories of buildings related to Count and Countess Rumford, Franklin Pierce, Robert Rogers, Isaac Hill, and other Concord notables. The original manuscript, with photographs, is available at the Tuck Library of the New Hampshire Historical Society.

David Arthur Brown's The History of Penacook, N. H., From Its First Settlement in 1734 Up To 1900 was written to bring together such items of history as could be gleaned from earlier publications and from interviews with older citizens. It was not intended to be a complete narrative, but was written to preserve some facts not already published.