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Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery, a National...
Ross Farm (Hill Ross Farm)
This 19th-century farmhouse was home to two impo...
Jackson Homestead
The Jackson Homestead is a well-preserved Federa...
Nathan and Mary Johnson House
Nathan and Mary Johnson were free blacks livi...
Liberty Farm
Liberty Farm was the home of Abby Kelley Fost...
The Wayside
The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts, a Nationa...
William Ingersoll Bowditch House
An important stop on the Underground Railroad ou...
William Lloyd Garrison House
This National Historic Landmark was the home of ...
African American National Historic Site
Lewis Hayden (1811-1889), an escaped Kentucky...
Abyssinian Meeting House
The Abyssinian Meeting House (1828), the only do...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nathan and Mary Johnson House
Nathan and Mary Johnson were free blacks living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who owned a block of properties including their longtime home and the neighboring old Friends meetinghouse. Nathan Johnson was an active abolitionist who assisted numerous fugitive slaves, ...
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 ...
The Wayside
The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts, a National Historic Landmark, was lived in by three American literary figures: Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Sidney and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and the ...
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 ...
William Lloyd Garrison House
This National Historic Landmark was the home of William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), one of the most articulate and influential advocates of the abolitionist movement in the United States, from 1864 until his death. Through public lectures and editorials in ...
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. ...
Abyssinian Meeting House
The Abyssinian Meeting House (1828), the only documented surviving 19th century frame meetinghouse in the downtown wards of Portland, is the historical, religious, educational and cultural center of Portland's 19th century African American population. It is the earliest meetinghouse ...
