42.5946°N 72.5865°W / 42.5946; -72.5865

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Poet's Seat Tower on Rocky Mountain, Greenfield, Mass.
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Poet's Seat Tower on Rocky Mountain, northern Pocumtuck Range. 1915 postcard.
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Commemorative Plaque at Poet's Seat Tower in Greenfield, Massachusetts
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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]

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