The Mother Church: The First Baptist Church of Keeseville

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  Green Apple Inn, 19th century Underground Railroad site

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  Keeseville Map

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  Battle of Plattsburgh battle scene

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  Mrs. Peggy Passino

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  Preparations for 174th Anniversary of First Baptist Church of Keeseville

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  Ausable River Lodge No. 149 By-laws

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  First Baptist Church of Keeseville postcard

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  First Baptist Church of Keeseville bell

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  First Baptist Church of Keeseville demolition July 11, 1969

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  First Baptist Church of Keeseville demolition July 11, 1969

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  Marjorie Lansing Porter, Editor Essex County Republican

  Marjorie Lansing Porter Editor Essex County Republican
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  Rev. O'Dell with Keeseville Vol. Fire Department

  Rev. O'Dell with KVFD
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  Marjorie Lansing Porter poses with portrait of her great-grandfather Wendell Lansing, founder of the Essex County Republican

  Historian and folklorist Marjorie Lansing Porter poses with a portrait of her great-grandfather Wendell Lansing, who was the founder of the Essex County Republican. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville as well as an Abolitionist and Underground Railroad Conductor.
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  Hand-drawn map of Peru Landing

  Hand-drawn map of Peru Landing
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  Detail of 1829 Map by David H. Burr

  Peru and environs
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  St. John de Baptiste Church, Liberty Street, interior

  View of the interior of St. John de Baptiste Church, Liberty Street.
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  First Baptist Church of Keeseville

  Original Site Liberty Street
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  First Baptist Church of Keeseville, Front Street, 1870s.

  First Baptist Church of Keeseville, Front Street, 1870s.
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  First Baptist Church of Keeseville Worship Board

  Ausable Town Historian Roby Scott, who is a member of the Keeseville Methodist Church, found this board in a closet.
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  Dedication of New York State Marker for the Quaker Union, Peru, NY. August 3, 1959

  Attendees from left to right: Mrs. Cora Macomber Stafford, Miss Eliza Keese Willets, Mrs. Mildred Gordon Keese (standing), Mrs. Eleanor Arthur Spaulding, The Rev. Walther Whitney, Roy Kennedy, Miss Georgia Harkness and Clarence Arthur.
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  Mrs. Eleanor Arthur Spaulding

  Mrs. Eleanor Arthur Spaulding, FIrst Baptist Church of Keeseville Historian
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  Notice of Gerrit Smith speaking at Baptist Church

  Abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Wendell Lansing was a member of the First Baptist Church of Keeseville, and he invited Gerrit Smith to speak there in 1845 as well as Frederick Douglass two years earlier.
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  NYS Assemblyman Billy Jones tours Stephen Keese Smith Farm in Peru with daughter, Ella, and Community Liaison, Connie Mandeville.

  Underground Railroad Tour of historic site conducted by North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association
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  West Point Cadets tour Stephen Keese Smith Farm in Peru, NY.

  Tour Stephen Keese Smith
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  Stephen Keese and Jane Keese Smith

  Stephen Keese Smith and his, wife, Jane Keese Smith.