What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: James Foster 09-05-1768 - 12-04-1854 Iron Master who manufactured the Stourbridge Lion Locomotive lived here
James Foster was an iron master instrumental in manufacturing the Stourbridge Lion, America's first locomotive to operate on a public railroad, thus contributing significantly to early American railway history.
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Photo: Philip Halling on Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0