George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home, also known as Marsh-Billings House, is a home in Woodstock, Vermont that was the boyhood home of George Perkins Marsh, an early conservationist.
The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is a forest that was an early managed forest, which is preserved.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967.
It is located at 54 Elm Street, Vermont Route 12, in Woodstock.
Famous quotes containing the words perkins, boyhood and/or home:
“When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.”
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)
“I looked at my daughters, and my boyhood picture, and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift I have ever been given. For what person, except one’s own children, would want so deeply and sincerely to have shared your childhood? Who else would think your insignificant and petty life so precious in the living, so rich in its expressiveness, that it would be worth partaking of what you were, to understand what you are?”
—Gerald Early (20th century)
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—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)