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Henry Wilson Shoe Shop

181 West Central Street, Natick, MA (see street view)

Photo courtesy of Paul Keleher, Flickr

Photo courtesy of Paul Keleher, Flickr

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.

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