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African American National Historic Site
Lewis Hayden (1811-1889), an escaped Kentucky...
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, ...
Foster Memorial AME Zion Church
Foster Memorial AME Zion Church was founded in 1...
John Brown Farm and Gravesite
John Brown (1800--1859) considered this farm, a ...
Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office
Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), a nationally prominent...
Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged Residence and Thompson AME Zion Church
Harriet Tubman (1820/21?--1913), a renowned lead...
White Horse Farm
White Horse Farm, built around 1770, was the lif...
F. Julius LeMoyne House
The LeMoyne House, a National Historic Landma...
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is one of...
Village of Mt. Pleasant Historic District
The historic village of Mount Pleasant was es...
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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. ...
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, this plain brick church was one of the nation's foremost centers of antislavery sentiment. Its minister at the time was Henry Ward Beecher, who had gained wide notice through his ...
Foster Memorial AME Zion Church
Foster Memorial AME Zion Church was founded in 1860 by Amanda and Henry Foster, Rev. Jacob Thomas, and Hiram Jimerson. Amanda Foster, considered the "Mother of the Church," was the driving force in the formation of the congregation whose ...
John Brown Farm and Gravesite
John Brown (1800--1859) considered this farm, a National Historic Landmark and New York State Historic Site, his home during the ten years leading up to the infamous 1859 raid on Harper's Ferrywhere he was killed. He requested to be ...
Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office
Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), a nationally prominent and influential abolitionist and social reformer who played a critical role in the operations of the Underground Railroad, lived on this estate and conducted business out of this land office. A major turning ...
Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged Residence and Thompson AME Zion Church
Harriet Tubman (1820/21?--1913), a renowned leader in the Underground Railroad movement, established the Home for the Aged in 1908. Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman gained her freedom in 1849 when she escaped to Philadelphia. Working as ...
White Horse Farm
White Horse Farm, built around 1770, was the lifetime home of politician and prominent abolitionist Elijah Pennypacker (1802-1888) and a depot on the Underground Railroad. In 1831 Pennypacker was elected to the House of Representatives and lobbied on the ...
F. Julius LeMoyne House
The LeMoyne House, a National Historic Landmark, was built in 1812, and was a center of antislavery activity in southwestern Pennsylvania from the 1830s through the end of slavery. Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne (1798-1879), the son of a Parisian ...
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is one of the oldest and last remaining agricultural resources in one of Ohio’s earliest black settlements, Longtown (Greenville settlement). This farmstead was the home of James Clemens (1781-1870), who was the founding ...
Village of Mt. Pleasant Historic District
The historic village of Mount Pleasant was established in 1803 by Robert Carothers, an Irishman from Virginia, and Jesse Thomas, a Quaker from North Carolina, and is important for the role it played in the antislavery movement and the ...
