Poet's Seat Tower Explained

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]

External links

• Photographs of and from Poet's Seat Tower

Notes and References

1. http://www.franklincountyhistory.com/greenfield/everts/index.html History of Greenfield, Massachusetts (1879)
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