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Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse
The Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse was bu...
Homestead Dwellings
The most common building type found in the Am...
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Mason's Island is now known as Theodore Roosevel...
John Brown's Headquarters
This building, also known as the Kennedy Farmhou...
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...
The Grimes Homestead
This house, constructed in the late 18th century...
Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
The Austin F. Williams House and Carriagehouse a...
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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 ...
Homestead Dwellings
The most common building type found in the Amana Colonies, the dwellings reflect the simple lives of their residents. Several original dwellings, mostly brick, remain in Homestead today. Amana Colony houses were typically rectangular, one-and-a-half-story buildings built with the ...
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Mason's Island is now known as Theodore Roosevelt Island because of the Theodore Roosevelt monument there. It is wooded with several archaeological sites in addition to the monument. The Potomac River flows into two channels surrounding the island. It ...
John Brown's Headquarters
This building, also known as the Kennedy Farmhouse, was the headquarters from which John Brown (1800-1859) planned and executed his raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. Along with a small band of followers, he ...
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 ...
The Grimes Homestead
This house, constructed in the late 18th century, was home to the Grimes family, a Quaker family active in the New Jersey antislavery movement. Dr. John Grimes (1802-1875), the most noted and vociferous antislavery advocate in the family, was ...
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 ...
