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Stop 15 of 21 · Concord audio walking tour

Egg Rock

Concord · 1885 · Inscription for Concord's 250th

What you'll hear here: about a minute on Egg Rock — the story behind what you're looking at, playing hands-free as you arrive.

Egg Rock, an outcrop of Silurian Straw Hollow Diorite, marks the confluence of the Assabet and Sudbury rivers, where they form the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts. The rock sits on a roughly oval intermittent island about 100 by 50 meters; most seasons you reach it by foot trails, though in high river levels a narrow channel separates the island from the mainland. The highest point here rises to about 39 meters above mean sea level, roughly 6 meters above normal river level.

An inscription was carved into the rock in 1885 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the 1635 founding of Concord, a mark visitors have long noted. Officially, the United States Geological Survey lists Egg Rock as GNIS feature 617309, classified as an island; in the GNIS database as of February 2010 the listed position (latitude 42.4645383, longitude -71.3592266) is misplaced by about 125 meters to the southwest and is not actually located on the intermittent island. A more correct position for Egg Rock is latitude 42.4651, longitude -71.3585.

Look now at the meeting of the two rivers and the oval island beneath your feet.

Where it is

Coordinates
42.4651, -71.3585
Area
Concord
Era
1885 · Inscription for Concord's 250th
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Three stops free. No account needed. The audio plays itself as you walk.