The following outlines our Restoration Plan and fundraising goals for the year 2018. Your gift will help us restore this Meetinghouse and...

Introduction What was the Underground Railroad? Many people think of it as a network of safe houses in the North. That is certainly part...

The M’Clintock Family of Farmington Quarterly Meeting: Equality, unity, and reform activism built upon Quaker faith and practice. The...

Farmington’s Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902) was positioned by time, place, family, and faith to work for the transformational reform...

(photo used with permission) Harriet Jacobs, born around 1815, in Edenton, North Carolina, spent two years in Rochester, New York. Here,...

The currents of social reform that circulated in upstate New York in the mid-1800s produced many well-known leaders in abolitionism and...

Anybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the catalyst for the first women’s rights...

No celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass, considering his monumental influence on the...

Austin Steward: Escaped to freedom, 1815, with help from Darius Comstock, Otis Comstock, and Amy Smith Comstock, Farmington Quakers...

On April 15, 1848, abolitionists executed a plan to free over 70 people enslaved by families in Washington, D.C. The freedom seekers were...

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer,...

The year was filled with many fine events and important steps forward in the evolution of the 1816 project. Restoration of the building...

To our friends of the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, As our 200th anniversary year draws to a close, we are writing to thank you...

A presentation by and dialogue with William Wilkinson marking the conclusion of our 200th Anniversary Year Programs Co-Sponsored by The...