Poet's Seat Tower

42°35′41″N 72°35′11″W / 42.5946°N 72.5865°W / 42.5946; -72.5865

Commemorative Plaque at Poet's Seat Tower in Greenfield, Massachusetts

Illustration from November 1856 Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Poet's Seat Tower is a 1912 sandstone observation tower, located in Greenfield, Massachusetts. It was so named to honor a long tradition of poets being drawn to the spot, in particular, the local poet Frederick Goddard Tuckerman.^[1] By 1850, the location was referred to as "Poet's Seat" by Tuckerman in a surviving herbarium entry for November 10 of that year.^[2]

An earlier wooden tower was erected at the site on June 3, 1879.^[3] This first structure was built, along with a public drinking fountain and a road accessing the site, under the auspices of The Greenfield Rural Club.^[4]

References

^ History of Greenfield, Massachusetts (1879) Franklin County, Massachusetts. County website cited Dec. 22, 2007.
^ England, Eugene (1991). Beyond Romanticism: Tuckerman's Life and Poetry. Provo: SUNY Press. p. 70.
^ Thompson, Francis M. (1904). History of Greenfield, Vol. 1. Greenfield, Mass.: Press of T. Morey & Son.p. 397
^ Thompson, Francis M. (1904). History of Greenfield, Vol. 2. Greenfield, Mass.: Press of T. Morey & Son. p. 1049

External links

Photographs of and from Poet's Seat Tower

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[1] History of Greenfield, Massachusetts (1879) Franklin County, Massachusetts. County website cited Dec. 22, 2007.

[2] England, Eugene (1991). Beyond Romanticism: Tuckerman's Life and Poetry. Provo: SUNY Press. p. 70.

[3] Thompson, Francis M. (1904). History of Greenfield, Vol. 1. Greenfield, Mass.: Press of T. Morey & Son.p. 397

[4] Thompson, Francis M. (1904). History of Greenfield, Vol. 2. Greenfield, Mass.: Press of T. Morey & Son. p. 1049

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