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Thoreau’s Cabin

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At this site, Roland Wells Robbins discovered the site of Thoreau’s cabin on November 11, 1945. A nearby fieldstone identifies the chimney foundation of Thoreau’s cabin beneath these stones and gives the cabin’s dates as 1845–1847, along with the words “Go thou my incense upward From this hearth.”
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Walden Pond State Reservation, Massachusetts
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