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Plymouth Notch in Windsor County, Vermont — The American Northeast (New England)
 

Calvin Coolidge Homestead

 
 
Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, September 24, 1998
1. Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker
Inscription. Calvin Coolidge Homestead has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark. Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1933 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service 1966.
 
Erected by National Park Service.
 
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Places. In addition, it is included in the Former U.S. Presidents: #30 Calvin Coolidge, and the National Historic Landmarks series lists. A significant historical year for this entry is 1933.
 
Location. 43° 32.118′ N, 72° 43.248′ W. Marker is in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, in Windsor County. Marker is on Calvin Coolidge Memorial Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Plymouth VT 05056, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Calvin Coolidge (within shouting distance of this marker); Plymouth WW1 Memorial (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Capt. John Coolidge Flagpole (approx. 0.2 miles away); Achsa W. Sprague (1827-1862) (approx. ¼ mile away); Vermont Gold Rush (approx.
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4.2 miles away); Revolutionary War Campground on the Crown Point Road (approx. 4.3 miles away); Bridgewater World War I Monument (approx. 6 miles away); Bridgewater Veterans Memorial (approx. 6.1 miles away).
 
Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, September 24, 1998
2. Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker
The marker is in the front yard near the flag pole
Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, September 24, 1998
3. Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker
Coolidge Hall and the Summer White House
Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, September 24, 1998
4. Calvin Coolidge Homestead Marker
Coolidge Birthplace
The Coolidge Store image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, September 24, 1998
5. The Coolidge Store
Short Biography of Calvin Coolidge image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Don Morfe, September 24, 1998
6. Short Biography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, August 9, 2015
7. Calvin Coolidge
This 1956 portrait of Calvin Coolidge by Joseph E. Burgess (after Ercole Cartotto) hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

“Americans expect their presidents to be active, which explains why Calvin Coolidge has been labeled by historians as the ‘quiet president’ and an ‘American enigma.’ Coolidge was propelled to national prominence, and the vice presidency, by his decision, while governor of Massachusetts, to fire striking officers in Boston's police strike of 1919, proclaiming, ’there is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.’ Assuming the presidency after Warren Harding's death in 1923, Coolidge determined not to do anything to upset American prosperity. Upon election to the presidency, Coolidge, in his 1925 inaugural address the first on radio expressed his belief that ‘the people of America [should] … work less for the government and more for themselves.… That is the chief meaning of freedom.’ When Coolidge left office, political commentator Walter Lippmann wrote, ‘Surely no one will write of those years … that an aggressive president altered the destiny of the Republic. Yet … no one will write … that the Republic wished its destiny to be altered.’” — National Portrait Gallery
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on November 4, 2020. It was originally submitted on December 26, 2012, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 593 times since then and 8 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on December 26, 2012, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.   7. submitted on October 17, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.

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