Plymouth Notch Calvin Coolidge village
— — the village a president went home to.
Not only on a wall.
“A handful of buildings on a back road in Windsor County: a general store, a church, a cheese factory, a farmhouse where a president was sworn in by his father at half past two in the morning. Plymouth Notch looks today nearly the way it did the night the news from San Francisco came up the wire in August 1923. The state runs it as a historic site now. The cheese factory still presses curd. The hills around it are unchanged. from the studio
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Plymouth Notch is a small village in the town of Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont, on Route 100A about six miles south of Route 4. Calvin Coolidge, the thirtieth president of the United States, was born here on July 4, 1872, in a small room attached to the back of the general store his father ran. The entire village is preserved as the President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Plymouth Notch Historic District. The state owns roughly two dozen original buildings on the site, kept in their early-twentieth-century condition.
On the night of August 2, 1923, Vice President Coolidge was visiting his father at the Plymouth Notch homestead when word arrived that President Harding had died in San Francisco. At 2:47 the next morning, by the light of a kerosene lamp in the sitting room, his father — a notary public — administered the presidential oath. The room is preserved exactly as it was that night, lamp included. The Coolidge homestead and the room are open to visitors from late May through mid-October each year, the season the site keeps regular hours.
The state historic site is open daily, late May through mid-October, with an admission charge that covers the visitor center, the homestead, the birthplace, the one-room schoolhouse, and the Union Christian Church where the Coolidge family worshipped. The Plymouth Cheese factory, founded in 1890 by the president's father John Coolidge and revived in the 1960s, still operates on site and sells its granular curd cheese to visitors. Calvin Coolidge is buried in the small cemetery across the road, in a simple grave beside six generations of his family.