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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.
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Abolitionist and Underground Railroad Conductor Wendell Lansing, Founder of the Essex County Republican
Wendell Lansing
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Herbert Estes, William G. Pomeroy Foundation Marker
Herbert Estes resided here 1885-1916.
Machinist, Inventor, Mill Owner & Church Leader
Union Soldier Diarist while prisoner during Civil War
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19th century Potsdam Sandstone residence of Herbert Estes on Mace Chasm Road, AuSable Chasm, Essex County, New York
19th century Potsdam Sandstone residence of Herbert Estes located at 1131 Mace Chasm Road.
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Deacon Herbert Estes reads the Bible with grandsons, Ralph and Harry Estes, in his parlor at his Mace Chasm Road residence in 1914.
Herbert Estes reads the Bible to his grandsons in his home, which is now the North Star Underground Railroad Museum , 1131 Mace Chasm Rd, Ausable Chasm, Essex County, New York.
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Deacon Herbert and Harriet Manley Howard Estes
Herbert and Harriet Manley Howard Estes
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Keeseville Old Cemetery
The Keeseville Old Cemetery contains interments of early Protestant settlers to Clinton County, New York.
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Keeseville Old Cemetery, AuSable, Clinton County, N.Y.
This cemetery ws visited by H. & W. McLellan on Aug. 27, 1938 and April 26, 1941.
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Eleanor Spaulding Footstool
Eleanor Spaulding Footstool from her Peru residence.
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Emily D. Baker
Emily Baker is a graduate student at the University of Vermont.
She was a National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom intern in the summer of 2022.
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Col. Melancton Smith Grave
Old Masonic symbols cover the headstone of Col. Melancton Smith in Riverside Cemetery, Plattsburgh.
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Ausable River Lodge No. 149
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Ausable River Lodge No. 149
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Keeseville/Clintonville Map
Undated Birmingham Falls, Clintonville, Keeseville Map
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One Hundred Anti-Slavery Conventions Tour 1843
Arrangements have been made for holding One Hundred Anti-Slavery Conventions during the next six months, in various parts of the country but chiefly in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana-- in accordance with a plan adopted at the late New England A.S. Conventions. Among the speakers who will give their attendance from the East are Messrs. John A. Collins, George Bradburn, Frederick Douglass, Charles L. Redmond and James Monroe.
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"Nigger Lovers"
Excerpt from "History of the Town of AuSable" by Marjorie Lansing Porter, Essex County Republican., February 13, 1953, Page 3, Image 3
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Witness Tree
This towering tree is a witness and guardian of Clinton County settlers buried here in the Peru Blockhouse Cemetery, Bear Swamp Rd., Peru, Clinton Co. N.Y.
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Grave of Thomas Wrangham
The grave of Thomas Wrangham, the first white male child born in the Town of Peru (1793-1860) and his wives, Fannie B. (1795-1842) and Philena C., (1799-1877) in the Peru Blockhouse Cemetery, Bear Swamp Rd. Peru, Clinton Co. N.Y.
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View of Revolutionary War Patriot graves at Peru Blockhouse Cemetery
Capt. Isaac Finch purchased this land and built the Peru Blockhouse with his sons John, Justice and James in 1792. The blockhouse was never used for refuge from Indian attacks but as an early courthouse, meeting place of the First Baptist Church of Christ of Peru, and a small-pox hospital.
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View of Peru Blockhouse Cemetery
Capt. Isaac Finch purchased this land and built the Peru Blockhouse with his sons John, Justice and James in 1792. The blockhouse was never used for refuge from Indian attacks but as an early courthouse, meeting place of the First Baptist Church of Christ of Peru, and a small-pox hospital.
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Blockhouse Marker on Bear Swamp Road, Peru, Clinton Co. N.Y.
Peru Blockhouse Cemetery Marker, Bear Swamp Road, Peru, Clinton Co., N.Y.