Webster, Noah, Birthplace - View this location on map This is the birthplace of Noah Webster (1758-1843), noted American lexicographer. Webster is most famous for the AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1828). His father had mortgaged the farm, along with this farmhouse, to pay for young Noah's education at Yale - obviously a case of money well spent. 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, Connecticut Historical

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