The Alcotts had first moved to Concord in 1840, although they left in 1843 to start Fruitlands,[REF] a utopian agrarian commune in nearby Harvard.
Orchard House is adjacent to The Wayside on the historic "American Mile" roadway toward Lexington, and is less than a half-mile from Bush the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson,[REF] where Henry David Thoreau and the Alcotts were frequent visitors.