Ithaca in Tompkins County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Pearl S. Buck

Photographed by Mira Earls, December 17, 2024

1. Pearl S. Buck Marker

Inscription.
Humanitarian and novelist author of "The Good Earth" Awarded Nobel Prize, 1938 lived in Forest Home and Chapel parsonage, 1924-1925

Erected 2024 by William G. Pomeroy Foundation. (Marker Number 1120.)

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music. A significant historical year for this entry is 1938.

Location. 42° 27.108′ N, 76° 28.084′ W. Marker is in Ithaca, New York, in Tompkins County. It is at the intersection of Forest Home Drive and Warren Road, on the left when traveling south on Forest Home Drive. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 224 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca NY 14850, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Upstate New York

and in the Southern Tier.

It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

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least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Forest Home (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Former Industry (approx. 0.2 miles away); Cornell University (approx. 0.4 miles away); Veterinary College (approx. half a mile away); Judd Falls (approx. 0.6 miles away); A Stream of Opportunities (approx. 0.7 miles away); East Ithaca (approx. 0.8 miles away); Redbud Woods (approx. 1.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Ithaca.

Also see . . . Pearl S. Buck (Wikipedia). (Submitted on December 19, 2024, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.)

Photographed by Mira Earls, December 17, 2024

2. Pearl S. Buck Marker

Forest Home Chapel image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Mira Earls, December 17, 2024

3. Forest Home Chapel

Credits. This page was last revised on July 15, 2025. It was originally submitted on December 18, 2024, by Mira Earls of Cortland, New York. This page has been viewed 335 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on December 18, 2024, by Mira Earls of Cortland, New York. • Michael Herrick was the editor who published this page.