Brister Freeman Trails Map-Concord Town Forest
The location of Brister Freeman’s Home-site and Brister’s
Spring are shown by name within the lower left quadrant of the attached Town
Forest map that may be helpful in trail navigation.
Brister Freeman’s Home-site Trail
Difficulty: rocky, steep in places on south end.
Highlight: cellar hole and ditching hill fences at
home-site
From the Parking Lot, walk the Red Dot trail south
parallel to Walden St.
From Walden Woods Project, walk the red dot trail north
parallel to Walden St.
Brister’s Spring (a.k.a. Brister
Freeman’s Spring) Trail
Difficulty: rocky, steep in places on south end.
Highlight: Stump of white pine tree adjacent to Spring
and mentioned by Thoreau.
From the Parking Lot, walk the Yellow Dot Trail east to SE corner of
Fairyland Pond and junction with Red Dot trail. Walk Red Dot trail south to
Brister’s Spring.
From Walden Woods Project, walk Yellow Dot Trail west to
junction with Red Dot trail then walk north to Spring.
Enjoy but Please do not disturb these historic sites and
trails.
At some point it is hoped that it will be possible to design and construct a Brister
Freeman home-site sign (ala existing Brister’s Spring sign) plus a “bench by
the side of the trail” as suggested by Elise Lemire when speaking of Toni Morrison
in her outstanding new book, “Black Walden.
http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2010/septemberoctober/feature/black-walden
“This book should be required reading for every Concord
and Lincoln resident!!!”
For more information about Brister’s Spring and the Brister
Freeman home-site see my blog: http://allanhschmidt1935.spaces.live.com/
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