Plymouth Notch is a small unincorporated village

Unincorporated area

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 in the town

New England town

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 of Plymouth

Plymouth, Vermont

Plymouth is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 555 at the 2000 census. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, was born in and is buried in Plymouth...

, Windsor County, Vermont

Vermont

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, United States

United States

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.

All or most of the village is included in the Calvin Coolidge Homestead District, a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

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. John Calvin Coolidge, Sr.

John Calvin Coolidge, Sr.

John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. was an American politician and businessman from Vermont and the father of President Calvin Coolidge.-Political and business career:...

, the father of Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

, was Justice of the Peace

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 in this town and here Coolidge was sworn in as president almost immediately upon the death of his predecessor, Warren G. Harding

Warren G. Harding

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, who died suddenly in 1923. President Coolidge is buried in Notch Cemetery

Notch Cemetery

The Plymouth Notch Cemetery in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, is the burial place for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge, as well as his wife Grace and children....

, along with seven generations of Coolidges.

In addition to the museum buildings, the village contains a restaurant, general store, and a still operative cheese factory founded by the Coolidge family in 1890.