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Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church and Mount Zion Cemetery
By the end of the Revolutionary War, many Qua...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Beth...
Austin F. Williams House and Carriage House
The Austin F. Williams House and Carriagehouse a...
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National...
Jackson Homestead
The Jackson Homestead is a well-preserved Federa...
William Ingersoll Bowditch House
An important stop on the Underground Railroad ou...
African American National Historic Site
Lewis Hayden (1811-1889), an escaped Kentucky...
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), author, human...
Starr Clark Tinshop
The Starr Clark Tin Shop was the property of Sta...
Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House
Edwin Clark grew up in Oswego, and after stud...
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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 ...
Bethel AME Church, Greenwich New Jersey
The small, concrete masonry church known as Bethel AME Church is as a rare, surviving African American institution associated with multiple participants in the Underground Railroad. Located in the heart of the black community of Springtown in Greenwich Township, ...
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 ...
Jackson Homestead
The Jackson Homestead is a well-preserved Federal-style house in Newton, Massachusetts. Corroborating written reminiscences and oral tradition provide evidence that the house served as a station on the Underground Railroad. Timothy Jackson (1756-1814) built the family homestead in 1809 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House
Edwin Clark grew up in Oswego, and after studying law, was admitted to the bar in 1828. He first served as clerk of the Village of Oswego and then held a position with the Northwestern Insurance Company. Harriet, whom ...
