Woodbury Morgan

AMHA #7

AKA Burbank Horse; AKA Old Woodbury. Dark chestnut, short blaze, rh stocking white, 14.3h, 1040 pounds. Foaled 5/1816, Tunbridge, VT. Bred by Lyman Wight. Reg.progeny: 38 colts, 49 fillies. Died 1838, Gainesville, AL.

Inscription from Historical Marker at Gainesville in Sumter County, Alabama:

Earliest known Morgan Horse in Alabama and one of the three major stallion sons sired by Justin Morgan, foundation sire of the breed. Woodbury was foaled in 1816 in Vermont, where he remained until sold to Norman Bugbee of Gainesville, Alabama, in 1836. Bugbee, a native of Vermont, had opened a store a few months earlier in this thriving port city, home of the North Sumter Race Course. In late 1836 Woodbury was shipped by sailing vessel from Boston, but became ill enroute and was injured during unloading. He never fully recovered and died in 1838. The U.S. Post Office at Gainesville is built on the site of Bugbee’s store.

Information from the Historical Marker Database.

Article from the Morgan Horse Association