http://natick.ma.povo.com/Henry_Wilson_Shoe_Shop Henry Wilson Shoe Shop The Povo Community This article is a non-geographic page in Natick, MA http://static.povo.com/img/logos/povo32.png http://static.povo.com/img/logos/povo_text.png Portions Creative Commons Licensed via cc-by-sa-3.0. Terms of use: http://world.povo.com/Povo:Terms%20of%20Use. Geographic location data is NOT Creative Commons, but copyright TeleAtlas. 2008-11-09T02:31:21.6370000-05:00 Henry Wilson Shoe Shop 2008-11-09T02:31:21.6370000-05:00 http://natick.ma.povo.com/Henry_Wilson_Shoe_Shop
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The Henry Wilson Shoe Shop is an historic ten footer building located at mile 8.5 of the Boston Marathon. Built in the 1850s, it was the shoe shop of Henry Wilson, a Senator from Massachusetts who went on to become Ulysses S. Grant's Vice President of the United States. A ten footer was a small backyard shop structure built in the 18th and 19th centuries in New England to serve as a shoemaker's shop. The name came from the fact that it was usually 10' x 10' in area.