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Events on Friday 4 July 1845 1
1845Thoreau moves to Walden PondThoreau begins his experiment in simple livingHenry David Thoreau moved into a small cabin he had built beside Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. He lived there for just over two years. Walden, his account of that time, was published in 1854.