Group Gathered at Douglass Marker

Location: South Avenue, Rochester

Inscription: "Douglass home. Frederic Douglass, abolitionist and editor of 'The North Star' hid many fugitive slaves at his home on this site."

Dedication of Memorial Marker, Susan B. Anthony House

Location: Madison Street, Rochester

Inscription: "Susan B. Anthony, outstanding leader in women's rights movement, made her home here with her sister Mary 1866-1906."

Plaque Honoring Frederick Douglass

Location: Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester

Inscription: "Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895. Escaped slave, abolitionist, suffragist, journalist and statesman. Founder of the Civil Rights Movement in America."

Thomas Warrant Homestead

Inscription: Warrant Homestead

Location:  1956 West Henrietta Road, Brighton

"Warrant Homestead, settled in 1819 by Thomas Warrant, coppersmith and abolitionist. This home used as station on the Underground Railroad."

Photo courtesy of Ontario County Historian

Pliny Sexton House

Location:  322 East Main St., Palmyra

Inscription: "This house, built by Pliny Sexton in 1827, was a station on the Underground Railway in the days of slavery."

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Cobblestone-Ferry Farm

Location: Lower Lake Rd., Bridgeport (Seneca County)

Inscription: "The Cobblestone or Ferry Farm, known during the Civil War as a station the so-called Underground Railway. The trail of slaves to Canada was broken by bringing them across the lake from Union Springs which was an ardent abolition Quaker village. This too was the landing place of an Indian canoe ferry and of the first white man's ferry."

Photo courtesy of Ontario County Historian

Austin Steward Memorial

Location:  Clarion Riverside Hotel, 120 E. Main St., Rochester

Photo by and courtesy the Ontario County Historian

Kelsey's Landing

Location:  near Genesee River, Rochester

Inscription:  "Kelsey's Landing. Freedom was assured for escaping slaves who boarded Canadian vessels here at the end of the Underground Railroad."

Photo courtesy of Ontario County Historian

Pitts Mansion marker

Location: Honeoye

Inscription: "Pitts Mansion, built 1821 by Gideon Pitts, son of Capt. Peter Pitts, pioneer settler in 1789."

Photo courtesy of Ontario County Historian, 2004

Plaque honoring Harriet Tubman

Location:  Cayuga County Courthouse, Auburn

Inscription: IN MEMORY OF HARRIET TUBMAN
BORN A SLAVE IN MARYLAND ABOUT 1821
DIED IN AUBURN, N.Y. MARCH 10^TH, 1913
CALLED THE "MOSES" OF HER PEOPLE,
DURING THE CIVIL WAR. WITH RARE
COURAGE, SHE LED OVER THREE HUNDRED
NEGROES UP FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM,
AND RENDERED INVALUABLE SERVICE
AS NURSE AND SPY.
WITH IMPLICIT TRUST IN GOD
SHE BRAVED EVERY DANGER AND
OVERCAME EVERY OBSTACLE, WITHAL
SHE POSSESSED EXTRAORDINARY
FORESIGHT AND JUDGMENT SO THAT
SHE TRUTHFULLY SAID --
"ON MY UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
I NEBBER RUN MY TRAIN OFF DE TRACK
AND I NEBBER LOS A PASSENGER."
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
BY THE CITIZENS OF AUBURN
1914 

Photo by and courtesy the Ontario County Historian

Post House

Location: North Plymouth Avenue, Rochester

Inscription: "QUAKERS ISAAC AND AMY POST HID 15 FUGITIVES OVER NIGHT IN THEIR HOUSE, A STATION ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD AT THIS SITE." CITY OF ROCHESTER 1834-1984

St. Mary's Hospital

Location: Genesee Street, Rochester

Inscription: "ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL OPENED IN SEPTEMBER 1857 BY THE SISTERS OF CHARITY FROM EMMITSBURG, MARYLAND. CARED FOR OVER 3000 SICK AND WOUNDED CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS." COUNTY OF MONROE 1961

Tallman Building

Location: Main Street, Rochester

Inscription: "HISTORIC SITE IN JOURNALISM. ON THIS SITE, FREDERICK DOUGLASS (1817-1895) PUBLISHED AN ANTISLAVERY NEWSPAPER, THE NORTH STAR, AND SUCCEEDING JOURNALS FROM 1847 UNTIL 1863. HE HAD ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY IN HIS YOUTH AND BECAME ONE OF THE MOST ELOQUENT SPEAKERS AND AGGRESSIVE JOURNALISTS IN THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT. HE WON RECOGNITION AS THE LEADING SPOKESMAN FOR THE BLACK CAUSE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND RECEIVED SEVERAL FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS IN THAT CAPACITY. MARKED THIS 23RD DAY OF APRIL, 1976 BY THE SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS, SIGMA DELTA CHI."