Farmington MeetinghouseJun 19, 20182 min2018 Restoration PlanThe following outlines our Restoration Plan and fundraising goals for the year 2018. Your gift will help us restore this Meetinghouse and...
Judith WellmanFeb 2729 minListen to Their Voices: Farmington and the Underground RailroadIntroduction What was the Underground Railroad? Many people think of it as a network of safe houses in the North. That is certainly part...
Judith WellmanJul 9, 20214 minThe M'Clintock Family of FarmingtonThe M’Clintock Family of Farmington Quarterly Meeting: Equality, unity, and reform activism built upon Quaker faith and practice. The...
Mary-Kay BelantMar 27, 20212 minPhebe Hathaway: Meeting the Moment on Temperance, Abolition, and Woman’s RightsFarmington’s Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902) was positioned by time, place, family, and faith to work for the transformational reform...
Paula WhitacreMar 20, 20214 minHarriet Jacobs: A Pivotal Time in Upstate New York (photo used with permission) Harriet Jacobs, born around 1815, in Edenton, North Carolina, spent two years in Rochester, New York. Here,...
Paula WhitacreMar 12, 20214 minJulia Wilbur: From a Monroe County Farm to a Fight for Equal RightsThe currents of social reform that circulated in upstate New York in the mid-1800s produced many well-known leaders in abolitionism and...
Judith WellmanMar 8, 20213 minElizabeth Cady Stanton & FarmingtonAnybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the catalyst for the first women’s rights...
Florence CardellaFeb 26, 20214 minFrederick Douglass & the FQMMNo celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass, considering his monumental influence on the...
Mary-Kay BelantFeb 19, 20213 minAustin Steward's Farmington FriendsAustin Steward: Escaped to freedom, 1815, with help from Darius Comstock, Otis Comstock, and Amy Smith Comstock, Farmington Quakers...
Mary-Kay BelantFeb 12, 20212 minMary and Emily Edmonson: Freedom Sought, Freedom Lost, Freedom GainedOn April 15, 1848, abolitionists executed a plan to free over 70 people enslaved by families in Washington, D.C. The freedom seekers were...
Florence CardellaFeb 5, 20216 minWilliam Wells Brown, Rochester Voices, and Jason ReynoldsWilliam Wells Brown (1814-1884) Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer,...
Farmington MeetinghouseJun 20, 20182 min2017 ReviewThe year was filled with many fine events and important steps forward in the evolution of the 1816 project. Restoration of the building...
Farmington MeetinghouseFeb 1, 20182 minEnd of Year 2017To our friends of the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, As our 200th anniversary year draws to a close, we are writing to thank you...
Farmington MeetinghouseFeb 1, 20181 minEmbodying ReconciliationA presentation by and dialogue with William Wilkinson marking the conclusion of our 200th Anniversary Year Programs Co-Sponsored by The...