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Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
The Austin F. Williams House and Carriagehouse a...
Ross Farm (Hill Ross Farm)
This 19th-century farmhouse was home to two impo...
Liberty Farm
Liberty Farm was the home of Abby Kelley Fost...
William Ingersoll Bowditch House
An important stop on the Underground Railroad ou...
William Lloyd Garrison House
This National Historic Landmark was the home of ...
African American National Historic Site
Lewis Hayden (1811-1889), an escaped Kentucky...
Starr Clark Tinshop
The Starr Clark Tin Shop was the property of Sta...
John P. and Lydia Edwards House
As abolitionist Gerrit Smith's land agent, frien...
Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House
Edwin Clark grew up in Oswego, and after stud...
Asa and Caroline Wing House
The Asa and Caroline Wing House was used as a wa...
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Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
The Austin F. Williams House and Carriagehouse are significant for their association with the Underground Railroad and the celebrated Amistadaffair of 1839-1841. Oral tradition indicates that Austin F. Williams (1805-1885), a leading abolitionist of the day who devoted much ...
Ross Farm (Hill Ross Farm)
This 19th-century farmhouse was home to two important figures in the abolitionist movement, Samuel Lapham Hill and Austin Ross. Samuel Hill purchased the farm in 1841 from the Northampton Silk Company. In 1842, Hill and others founded the Northampton ...
Liberty Farm
Liberty Farm was the home of Abby Kelley Foster, outspoken abolitionist and early suffragist, and her husband, Stephen Symonds Foster, from 1847 until 1881. Born in 1810, Abby Kelley was raised as a Quaker and developed the same spirit ...
William Ingersoll Bowditch House
An important stop on the Underground Railroad outside Boston, Massachusetts was the William Ingersoll Bowditch House. The Bowditch House is a modest example of mid-19th century wooden cottages, L-shaped with Gothic Revival elements. Built in the planned suburban community ...
William Lloyd Garrison House
This National Historic Landmark was the home of William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), one of the most articulate and influential advocates of the abolitionist movement in the United States, from 1864 until his death. Through public lectures and editorials in ...
African American National Historic Site
Lewis Hayden (1811-1889), an escaped Kentucky slave, settled in Boston with his wife Harriet in 1849 and became active in the abolition movement. Their home is the most documented of Boston's Underground Railroad stations, having sheltered many fugitive slaves. ...
Starr Clark Tinshop
The Starr Clark Tin Shop was the property of Starr Clark and his wife, Harriet Loomis Clark. They were abolitionists and Underground Railroad activists in the Village of Mexico, from late 1832 until the Civil War. The Clarks welcomed ...
John P. and Lydia Edwards House
As abolitionist Gerrit Smith's land agent, friend, and colleague and as an engineer committed to public service, John Benjamin Edwards shaped Oswego's economic and cultural development for over sixty years. For at least sixteen of those years, he and ...
Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House
Edwin Clark grew up in Oswego, and after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1828. He first served as clerk of the Village of Oswego and then held a position with the Northwestern Insurance Company. Harriet, whom ...
Asa and Caroline Wing House
The Asa and Caroline Wing House was used as a way station on the Underground Railroad. Asa Wing (1815-54) was a regionally recognized abolitionist lecturer and organizer in central New York. Asa Wing's diary, augmented by contemporary newspaper reports ...
