The Drinking Gourd Project’s mission is to establish a permanent African American and Abolitionist Heritage Tour in Concord, and provide educational resources for Concord schools and community groups.

Save the Caesar Robbins House!

Support is urgently needed to help secure the Caesar Robbins house before April’s town meeting, so that Community Preservation Act funds can be passed for its preservation in Article #35 & the town is allowed to lease land next to the North Bridge parking lot for its future site, Article #36.

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  The Caesar Robbins House, 324 Bedford Street, Concord, MA

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  Robbins House cellar detail

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  Robbins House attic floor detail

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  Robbins House windows and chair rail

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  Robbins House chair rail and wainscote detail

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The Town of Concord has a remarkable and extremely time-limited opportunity to save a piece of our history: the Caesar Robbins House. It is one of the very few pieces of physical evidence of Concord’s Black Heritage, and if it is demolished, a grave disservice will be done to our town’s history.

We are faced with an urgent need. Our hope is that we can move, preserve and restore the home, and ultimately have it serve as an interpretive site – as Concord’s African American History Museum (of which we have many artifacts and documents from Thoreau and others in the transcendentalist movement), adding to the richness of Concord’s story.

The Human Rights Council feels that this is a critical piece of history that has been too often overlooked, maybe overshadowed by the wealth of other aspects of Concord’s history.

Please help us save this piece of Concord’s history!

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Caesar Robbins House in the News

• Concord’s Untold Revolution: Inside the Bigelow House Feb 25, 2010
• Concord CPA board announces recommendations Thu Dec 31, 2009
• Selectmen plan for annual Town Meeting, Dec 22 2009
• Slavery in Massachusetts November 2, 2009
• 11 ask for Community Preservation funds, Nov 19 2009
• School Committee gets a taste of the new Willard, Oct 19 2009
• Meeting focuses on slave home, Oct 16 2009
• Concord receives 12 applications for CPA funds, Oct 12 2009
• Caesar Robbins and “Our Wood-Lot” Thu Sep 17, 2009
• Saving Caesar Robbins’s House Wed Sep 16, 2009
• Group Hopes to Save Underground Railroad House Wed Sep 16, 2009
• Caesar Robbins House Sept 14, 2009
• Concord, MA 1780s Home of Former Slave Caesar Robbins In Peril Mon Sept. 14 2009
• In Concord, a bid to save tie to abolitionist days Mon Sep 14, 2009
• Concord couple hopes to help save house Thu Aug 27, 2009
• House built by former slave could become museum Wed Aug 12, 2009
• Uncovering history: Girl Scouts are first to try out Abolitionists tour Feb 05, 2009
• The Drinking Gourd Project is up and running, May 28, 2009
• Nonprofit presents Anti-Slavery Society reenactment May 11, 2009