August 3, 1813 – A 20-year-old man from Lexington, Mass., who has rented a room on Concord's Chapel Street for the past three months announces in the Patriot that he has commenced a wheelwright business. His name is Lewis Downing, and in time his business, Abbot & Downing, will build the coaches that bring Concord national fame.
August 4, 1926 – It is announced in Concord that Allen Hollis, a local lawyer and civic leader known as “The Kingfish,” will donate 11.9 acres on South Fruit Street and $5,000 toward a football field and other athletic facilities. The land will become Memorial Field.
Aug. 5, 1861 – New Hampshire's First Regiment, its three months' enlistment up, returns to Concord without having fought a battle. Gov. Nathaniel Berry, the Governor's Horse Guard and a large crowd of citizens greet the regiment and accompany it to the State House. There, the soldiers stack arms. Many will volunteer for service in the three-year regiments now forming.
August 6, 1728 – A grant creates the Plantation of Suncook (an Indian term meaning “place of the goose” or “rocky place”). Massachusetts grants the land to the 47 soldiers and survivors of an Indian-hunting expedition to the north known as Lovewell's War. Francis Doyen of Penacook, one of Lovewell's soldiers, is believed to have been the first white settler.
August 8, 1861 – The Democratic Standard, a Concord newspaper with Southern sympathies, refers to the Union Army as “Old Abe's Mob.” When angry returned soldiers from the First New Hampshire Volunteers gather outside the Standard office, the paper's frightened proprietors stand in the windows, pistols in hand. The owners fire three shots in the melee that follows, but no one is injured. The mob burns some of the Standard's property and dumps its type cases in the street.
