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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
During the summer of 1859, John Brown (1800-1...
Jefferson County Courthouse
The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town,...
Fort Monroe
Known also as "Freedom Fortress," Fort Monroe...
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, state...
Friends Meeting House
The Friends Meeting House in Wilmington was e...
Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House
The Appoquinimink Friends Meetings House, erecte...
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery
By the end of the Revolutionary War, many Qua...
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...
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
During the summer of 1859, John Brown (1800-1859) developed a strategy for seizing Harpers Ferry and gathered weapons, supplies, and supporters while living at the Kennedy Farm, located seven miles away in Maryland. His plan was to liberate slaves ...
Jefferson County Courthouse
The Jefferson County Courthouse in Charles Town, West Virginia (formerly Virginia), was the site of the 1859 trial of John Brown after his raid and subsequent capture at Harpers Ferry. Brown had attempted to lead a slave rebellion and ...
Fort Monroe
Known also as "Freedom Fortress," Fort Monroe was one of the few military installations in the South not occupied by Confederate forces during the Civil War. As the continuously held Union stronghold to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Fort ...
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The famous abolitionist, writer, lecturer, statesman, and Underground Railroad conductor Frederick Douglass (1817--1895) resided in this house from 1877 until his death. At the request of his second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, Congress chartered the Frederick Douglass Memorial and ...
Friends Meeting House
The Friends Meeting House in Wilmington was erected between 1815 and 1817. Like many Quaker congregations, members of the Wilmington Meeting House were active in the Underground Railroad. In 1787, Delaware passed a law prohibiting the importation and exportation ...
Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House
The Appoquinimink Friends Meetings House, erected in 1783, is located in a community where a strong Quaker antislavery movement existed. The Meeting House is associated with John Hunn (1818-1894) and John Alston (1794-1874), two Underground Railroad "station masters" who ...
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery
By the end of the Revolutionary War, many Quakers and anti-slavery sympathizers had set aside land for freed slaves. African-American hamlets were established in secluded areas on portions of Quaker land throughout western New Jersey. Small Gloucester, also known ...
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 ...
