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Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse
The Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse was bu...
Amana Colony Blacksmith Shop
The Amana villages were situated in a soil rich ...
Camp Nelson
Camp Nelson was a large Union quartermaster and ...
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
During the summer of 1859, John Brown (1800-1...
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...
Peter Mott House
Peter Mott (c. 1807-1881), an African American f...
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...
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, ...
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Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse
The Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse was built around 1868, and was used to process meat for the several communal kitchens in the village of Homestead. Most butchering was done in the fall and winter, and meat was smoked ...
Amana Colony Blacksmith Shop
The Amana villages were situated in a soil rich area of Iowa and the farmers cultivating it required the services of a full service blacksmith and repair shop. Each Amana village had one blacksmith shop. The self-sufficient Amana villages ...
Camp Nelson
Camp Nelson was a large Union quartermaster and commissary depot, recruitment and training center, and hospital facility located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky, six miles south of Nicholasville. Camp Nelson is the nation's best preserved large Civil War depot, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Peter Mott House
Peter Mott (c. 1807-1881), an African American farmer, constructed this house around 1844 and resided there until 1879. According to persuasive oral testimonies, Mott and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Thomas Mott, provided refuge to escaping slaves during the years ...
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 ...
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 ...
