Weston, Massachusetts - Tower Remembering Massachusetts Vikings
- Address:
- Norumbega Rd, Weston, MA
- Directions:
- Massachusetts Viking Tower. I-95 exit 23,24,25. Follow signs for Hwy 30 west toward Wayland. Once on Hwy 30, make a quick right onto River Rd. Drive almost a mile, back over the interstate, then turn right onto Norumbega Rd. The tower will be on the left.
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Weston, Massachusetts - Tower Remembering Massacusetts Vikings Here is a photo I shot last summer at the "Norumbega" monument to
our local Massachusetts Vikings. It's a handsome stone tower with an
explanatory carved plaque at the bottom, all built in 1889. The stairs
inside the tower are sealed off, but not securely enough to prevent a waving photo op from the top. [David Gingold, 03/17/2002][RA: The tower was built by Prof. Eben Horsford where he claimed to have found the fabled lost Viking city of Norumbega. He also claimed to have found Leif Ericcson's house just down the street from his own house in Cambridge. Horsford's theories were endorsed by the ruling Protestant elite of Boston, who in the late 1800s favored the Vikings and belittled Columbus, who was Catholic.]
The tests of time and critical scientific review were not kind to Horsford's ideas, but since he had the foresight to have his theories carved in stone, you can still visit monuments to his discovery today. Crackpots, take note!
A stone tower engraved with the story of Norumbega stands overlooking the Charles just inside Route 128 in Weston. Also find a statue of Leif Ericson on Comm. Ave. in Boston. [David Gingold, 06/10/2001]
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