To the east of the Merrimack, atop a bluff, is a flat, sandy plain known as Concord Heights, which has seen most of the city's commercial development since 1960.

Perhaps the most pervasive influence on the use of the term throughout the years has been the song " Yankee Doodle ", which was popular during the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) as, following the battles of Lexington and Concord, it was broadly adopted by American rebels.

Jordan has performed at many jazz festivals, including: Kool Jazz Festival ( 1984 ), Concord Jazz Festival ( 1985 ), and the Montreux International Jazz Festival ( 1985 ).

Glenn's boyhood home in New Concord has been restored and made into an historic house museum and education center.

WTIX broadcasts from a tower on US Highway 29 North near Poplar Tent Road in Concord and has studios in the Hidden Plaza at 308 Church Street North in Concord.

The city lies north of the Saugus River, and is also home to several brooks, as well as several ponds, the largest being Breed's Pond and Walden Pond ( which has no relation to a similarly named pond in Concord ).

" The school has an ESL ( English as a Second Language ) program and also includes two CASE ( Concord Area Special Education ) classrooms.

Like the Merrimack, the Concord, although a much smaller river, has many waterfalls and rapids that served as power sources for early industrial purposes, some well before the founding of Lowell.

" In passing up the Concord and Claremont Railroad from Concord, the observant traveler has doubtless noticed the substantial and comfortable-looking homestead with large and trim front yard, shaded by thickly planted and generous topped maples, on the right-hand side of the road after crossing the bridge that spans ' Contoocook's bright and brimming river ' at the pleasant-looking village of Contoocookville in the northern part of Hopkinton.

Starting with the 2006-07 school year, the town has sent students graduating from Deerfield Community School to Concord High School.

Concord has a council-manager form of government.

Concord has a diverse economy comprising shipping and transportation, banking, manufacturing, motorsports, and various service sectors.

The City of Concord has a local bus system, known as CKRider, that provides service to Concord and Kannapolis.

There are no passenger stations located in Concord, but Amtrak has stations located in the adjacent cities of Kannapolis and Charlotte.

The Award for Concord is bestowed upon the person, persons or institution whose work has made an exemplary and outstanding contribution to mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence amongst men, to the struggle against injustice or ignorance, to the defense of freedom, or whose work has widened the horizons of knowledge or has been outstanding in protecting and preserving mankind's heritage.

The 3 CD set still only covers about one-third of the entire Wattstax concert, which lasted 10 + hours ; Concord has not issued any statement as to the possibility of preparing future releases that would cover the remaining Wattstax material.

ETS also has a major office in San Antonio, TX, which houses its K – 12 Assessment Programs division, and smaller offices in Philadelphia, PA, Washington, DC, Hato Rey, PR, and Concord, Sacramento, and Monterey, CA.

Increasingly, Midland has become a bedroom community for those commuting to work in nearby Charlotte and Concord.

To the north and east of downtown is the older residential area of Concord, with many homes dating back to before World War II.

Although many of the town's residents travel to nearby commercial and business centers in Tilton, Concord or Manchester for employment, nearly a thousand people work in Northfield, according to the NH Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau.

The community-colloquially termed the " Borscht Belt "-was once well-known internationally for its massive resorts including the Concord and Grossinger's resorts, among many others.

Concord is home to many churches, and a Jewish congregation, Temple Or Olam.

Since the edict disallowed the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran Confessions as contained in the Book of Concord, many Lutheran clergy could not bring themselves to comply with the edict.

The battles of Lexington and Concord were the result of many taxes which Lord North was in favour of ; including many of the well known Acts.

The siege began on April 19 after the Battles of Lexington and Concord, when the militia from many Massachusetts communities surrounded Boston and blocked land access to the then-peninsular town, limiting British resupply to naval operations.

He was exceptionally dedicated to his great New England forebear Charles Ives, many of whose compositions he conducted ( including the first performance of " in re, con moto "); his interpretation of the " Concord " Sonata for piano was much praised.

Among the Bostonians buried here are the original owner, William Copp, his children, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Robert Newman ( the patriot who placed the signal lanterns in the steeple of Old North Church for Paul Revere's midnight ride to Lexington and Concord ), Prince Hall ( the father of Black Freemasonry ), and many unmarked graves of the African Americans who lived in the " New Guinea " community at the foot of the hill.

In the introduction to his Essays Before a Sonata ( published immediately before the Concord Sonata ) Ives said the work was his " impression of the spirit of transcendentalism that is associated in the minds of many with Concord, Massachusetts of over a half century ago.

In 1955 many of the MIT team left to form Concord Controls, a commercial NC company with Giddings ' backing, producing the Numericord controller.

The Millpond Dam in North Billerica is just one of many blockages that caused the alewife population to collapse on the Concord River.

The Concord University Student Government Association ( SGA ) is responsible for many changes on campus, and is active in every aspect of Concord life.

Concord University is home to many intercollegiate and intramural athletics teams.

The Galactic Concord has responded as quickly as possible, but faster-than-light technology being what it is, even distress messages take many days to get through.

This car test and driving report stated that for many customers, the versatile six-cylinder automobiles like the AMC Concord wagon, were excellent substitutes for full-size cars.

When AMC dropped the Concord and made its successor the Renault Alliance, many AMC loyalists were alienated.

Some of the animus against ECUSA derived in part from the general dominance of theological liberalism within Anglicanism, abhorrent to many who consider the Augsburg Confession and the other writings in the Book of Concord to be definitive of proper Christian belief and practice.

On May 10, 1775, less than one month after the American Revolutionary War was ignited with the battles of Lexington and Concord, the British garrison of 48 soldiers was surprised by a small force of Green Mountain Boys, along with militia volunteers from Massachusetts and Connecticut, led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.

Cutler's software career started at a small company he founded called Agrippa-Ord, located in Monument Square, Concord, Massachusetts ( or possibly in Acton, Massachusetts ), marketing software for the LINC and PDP-8 computers.

Barnett then began a housing development west of Lake Concord called Fern Park Estates, composed of small lots and including a fernery for individual owners.

On May 1, 1979, AMC marked the 25th anniversary of the Nash-Hudson merger with " Silver Anniversary " editions of the AMC Concord and Jeep CJ in two-tone silver ( Jeeps then accounted for around 50 % of the company's sales and most of its profits ); and introduced " LeCar ", a U. S. version of the small, fuel-efficient Renault 5, in dealer showrooms.

Although Concord is frequently considered to be basically a Vitis labrusca cultivar, some have argued that the hermaphrodite flowers suggest at least a small amount of Vitis vinifera in its pedigree.

He obtained backing to attempt to found an English colony in the New World and in 1602 he sailed from Falmouth, England in a small Dartmouth bark, the Concord, with thirty-two on board.

Muskingum's campus consists of 21 major buildings, a football stadium and a small lake, which all sit atop of rolling hills overlooking New Concord.

The small wooden Concord Bridge ( a reproduction ) is preserved by the National Park Service.

Concord currently consists of one-family homes, small apartment buildings, and condominiums.

A small public alternative high school, named Concord High School, is located in the neighborhood, which is also home to a large medical arts complex ( on Ralph Place ) that had sprung up around the former Doctor's Hospital of Staten Island, which closed in 2003.

The U. S. automobile industry has had a place " for a small company deft enough to exploit special market segments left untended by the giants " and under the leadership of " Gerald C. Meyers, AMC transformed the austere old Hornet into the handsomer Concord.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church " Concord " ( Евангелическо-Лютеранская Церковь " Согласие ") is a small confessional Lutheran denomination based in Russia.

In 1602, from the voyage of the Concord ( of Dartmouth ) arriving at Cape Cod on May 15, 1602, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold had named the small island " Martha's Vineyard " after his eldest daughter, Martha ;

The Concord unit is primarily two small lakes ( referred to as " pools " or " impoundments ") that are drained into the Concord River every summer.

William Harmon was born in Concord, North Carolina, a small cotton-mill town northeast of Charlotte.

Concord features a small shopping strip on Majors Bay Road.