Fitchburg, Massachusetts: Calvin Coolidge Stood Here
A bronze plaque, green and stained with age, nearly flush with the ground, marks the spot where the 30th President stood on Nov. 12, 1928.
- Address:
- Main St., Fitchburg, MA
- Directions:
- North side of town. On the lower end of the Upper Common, which stretches between north- and southbound Hwy 31/Main St. The plaque is just to the left of the war memorials and just north of Main St.'s intersection with Rollstone St./Academy St.
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Theodore Roosevelt, his niece Eleanor, and John F. Kennedy visited Fitchburg as well, but they apparently get short shrift in the plaque department.
[Kurt Deion / kurtshistoricsites.com, 06/11/2018]
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Coolidge was in Fitchburg for the dedication of the town's WWI memorial.