Underground Railroad In The Adirondack Town Of Chester The

Author : Donna Lagoy,Laura Seldman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625857019

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The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Town of Chester by Donna Lagoy,Laura Seldman Pdf

The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. The small Adirondack town holds as many as nine confirmed or suspected sites where fugitives once found shelter. Stories abound of residents discovering secret rooms containing beds and other artifacts within their homes. The first abolitionist pastor of the Darrowsville Wesleyan Church, Reverend Thomas Baker, reportedly hid fugitive slaves in the parsonage. Color photographs and interviews with current residents illuminate the region's hidden history with the Underground Railroad movement. With the support of the Historical Society of the Town of Chester, Donna Lagoy and Laura Seldman reveal these courageous stories of local families who risked everything in the pursuit of freedom for all.

Author : Donna Lagoy and Laura Seldman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467119160

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Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Town of Chester, The by Donna Lagoy and Laura Seldman Pdf

The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for runaway slaves escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. The small Adirondack town holds as many as nine confirmed or suspected sites where fugitives once found shelter. Stories abound of residents discovering secret rooms containing beds and other artifacts within their homes. The first abolitionist pastor of the Darrowsville Wesleyan Church, Reverend Thomas Baker, reportedly hid fugitive slaves in the parsonage. Color photographs and interviews with current residents illuminate the region's hidden history with the Underground Railroad movement. With the support of the Historical Society of the Town of Chester, Donna Lagoy and Laura Seldman reveal these courageous stories of local families who risked everything in the pursuit of freedom for all.

Author : Tom Calarco
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786464166

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The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region by Tom Calarco Pdf

The success of the Underground Railroad depended on the participation of sympathizers in hundreds of areas throughout the country, each operating independently. Each area was distinctive both geographically and societally. This work focuses on the contributions of people in the Adirondack region, including their collaboration with operatives from Albany to New York City. With more than 10 years of research, the author has been able to take what for years in northern New York was considered akin to legend and transform it into history. Abolitionist newspapers--such as Friend of Man, Liberator, Pennsylvania Freeman, Emancipator, National Anti-Slavery Standard, and the little known Albany Patriot--that were published weekly from 1841 to 1848, as well as materials from local archives, were utilized. The book has extensive maps, photographs and appendices; key contributors to the cause are identified, abolition meetings and conventions are described, and maps of the Underground Railroad stations by county are provided.

Author : Don Papson,Tom Calarco
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476618715

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Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City by Don Papson,Tom Calarco Pdf

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay's closest associate was Louis Napoleon, a free black man who played a major role in the James Kirk and Lemmon cases. For more than two years, Gay kept a record of the fugitives he and Napoleon aided. These never before published records are annotated in this book. Revealing how Gay was drawn into the bitter division between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, the work exposes the private opinions that divided abolitionists. It describes the network of black and white men and women who were vital links in the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a daily reality.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317454168

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The Underground Railroad by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

Provides a look at the network known as the Underground Railroad - that mysterious "system" of individuals and organizations that helped slaves escape the American South to freedom during the years before the Civil War. This work also explores the people, places, writings, laws, and organizations that made this network possible.

Author : David R. Starbuck
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512602630

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Archeology in the Adirondacks by David R. Starbuck Pdf

While numerous books have been written about the great camps, hiking trails, and wildlife of the Adirondacks, noted anthropologist David R. Starbuck offers the only archeological guide to a region long overlooked by archeologists who thought that "all the best sites" were elsewhere. This beautifully illustrated volume focuses on the rich and varied material culture brought to the mountains by their original Native American inhabitants, along with subsequent settlements created by soldiers, farmers, industrialists, workers, and tourists. Starbuck examines Native American sites on Lake George and Long Lake; military and underwater sites throughout the Lake George, Fort Ticonderoga, and Crown Point regions; old industrial sites where forges, tanneries, and mines once thrived; farms and the rural landscape; and many other sites, including the abandoned Frontier Town theme park, the ghost town of Adirondac, Civilian Conservation Corps camps, ski areas, and graveyards.

Author : R. C. Smedley
Publisher : Beaufort Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1969-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0405018959

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History of the Underground Railroad by R. C. Smedley Pdf

Wishing only to accumulate sufficient information for a newspaper article the author's inquiries yielded enough material for this book on the Negro escape route to the North

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924087278036

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Adirondack Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Railroads
ISBN : PRNC:32101066785823

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Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York for the Fiscal Year Ending ... by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Railroads
ISBN : IOWA:31858017948385

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Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of New York by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1802 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Railroads
ISBN : SRLF:A0002355238

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Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of New-York, and of the Tabulations and Deductions from the Reports of the Railroad Corporations, Made to the Board, for the Year Ending ... by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : New York (State) Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Railroads
ISBN : CORNELL:31924093028730

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Report by New York (State) Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:71248816

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Annual Report ... by New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners Pdf

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UIUC:30112077832456

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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Senate Pdf

Author : Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 1960 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 081560808X

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The Encyclopedia of New York State by Peter Eisenstadt Pdf

The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.