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Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
The Austin F. Williams House and Carriagehouse a...
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National...
Dorsey--Jones House
Between 1850 and 1859, the Dorsey-Jones House wa...
Ross Farm (Hill Ross Farm)
This 19th-century farmhouse was home to two impo...
Nathan and Mary Johnson House
Nathan and Mary Johnson were free blacks livi...
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...
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author, human...
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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 ...
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark, is a garden cemetery founded in 1831 and located on a 175-acre site near the Charles River on the Cambridge-Watertown border. While the site of many illustrious abolitionist burials, it is ...
Dorsey--Jones House
Between 1850 and 1859, the Dorsey-Jones House was the home of two escaped slaves, Basil Dorsey and Thomas H. Jones. Basil Dorsey, originally enslaved in Frederick County, Maryland, escaped slavery with his brothers after the denial of promised freedom ...
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 ...
Nathan and Mary Johnson House
Nathan and Mary Johnson were free blacks living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who owned a block of properties including their longtime home and the neighboring old Friends meetinghouse. Nathan Johnson was an active abolitionist who assisted numerous fugitive slaves, ...
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. ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author, humanitarian, and abolitionist, lived in this house from 1850 to 1852 during which time she wrote her famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, to a notable Congregational minister and his wife, ...
