Noah Webster House, West Hartford, Connecticut
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Noah Webster Jr. was born in this very house on South Main Street in West Hartford during October of 1758. In 1806, at age 48, he would go on to create America’s first dictionary and then dedicate the next two decades to crafting his master work: the 70,000-word “An American Dictionary of the English Language”. It sold poorly and production drove him into debt. Only after he died in the 1840s, with the rights to the work purchased by the Merriam brothers, did the famous Merriam-Webster Dictionary take shape, posthumously securing Webster’s rightful place in American history.
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