The Woodworth House, also known as the Old Oaken Bucket Homestead, is a historic house at 47 Old Oaken Bucket Road in

Scituate, Massachusetts Scituate () is a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth. The population was 19,063 at the 2020 census. History The Wampanoag and their neighbors have inhabited ...

. The oldest portion of this house was built c. 1675, and is now an

ell An ell (from Proto-Germanic *''alinō'', cognate with Latin ''ulna'') is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand). The word literally means "arm", and ...

on the main house, a Cape style structure built in 1826. The house is most notable for its association with

Samuel Woodworth Samuel Woodworth (January 13, 1784 – December 9, 1842) was an American author, literary journalist, playwright, librettist, and poet. Life Woodworth was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, to Revolutionary War veteran Benjamin Woodworth and hi ...

, who in 1817 wrote the poem "The Old Oaken Bucket" about an old well on this property. The football trophy the Old Oaken Bucket, which is contested for annually by Indiana University and Purdue University, was inspired by the poem and the song crafted from the poem. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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National Register of Historic Places in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Federal architecture in Massachusetts Gothic Revival architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1823 Buildings and structures in Scituate, Massachusetts Houses in Plymouth County, Massachusetts {{PlymouthCountyMA-NRHP-stub

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