Alleged Tower Built by Leif Erikson in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Title: Alleged Tower Built by Leif Erikson in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Submitted by: JakeAnder
Description: Tower at Norumbega Road on the Charles

Prof. Eben Norton Horsford, amateur archeologist, was convinced that in A.D. 1000, Leif Erikson sailed up the Charles and built his house in what is now Cambridge, Mass. Horsford did a little digging and found some buried artifacts that he claimed were Norse. On the spot he built this memorial. A few miles upstream, at the mouth of Stony Brook he had this tower built marking the supposed location of a Viking fort and city. The tower was erected in 1889 and stands approximately 12 m tall.
Identifier: NM-01518
Contributor: JakeAnder
Date: 1889; 2026-10-09
Temporal Coverage: Modern (Nineteenth Century)
Place of Origin: Norumbega Rd, Weston, MA
Current Location: Norumbega Rd, Weston, MA 02493, USA; 42.3503725, -71.2615426
Format: Stone
Type: Modern Building See all items with this value; Building See all items with this value; Built Enviroment See all items with this value; Place & Environment See all items with this value
Subject: Tower
Rights: JakeAnder; CC BY-SA 4.0
References: Leif Erikson

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