Farmington Meetinghouse
2018 Restoration Plan
The following outlines our Restoration Plan and fundraising goals for the year 2018. Your gift will help us restore this Meetinghouse and...
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Evan Breaton
- 5 days ago
- 2 min
Friendly Greetings!
December 1, 2022 EXPANDING STORIES: OUR ANNUAL APPEAL Have you ever compared images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the new James...
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Farmington Meetinghouse
- Nov 11
- 2 min
Newsletter, November 8, 2022: Last Program of the Season
November 8, 2022 Newsletter, November 8, 2022: Last Program of the Season JOIN US FOR OUR LAST PROGRAM OF THE SEASON Marissa Corwin...
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florencecardella1
- Nov 6
- 3 min
Newsletter, September - Underground Railroad Month
Here is a little-known fact to share with your friends who appreciate factoids: September is International Underground Railroad Month! ...
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Farmington Meetinghouse
- Nov 6
- 2 min
Newsletter, October 2022
October 29, 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse Museum and Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan Present...
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florencecardella1
- Oct 30
- 3 min
Newsletter, September 20, 2022:
MEETINGHOUSE RESTORATION BEGINS! We are delighted to announce that architect Bill Brandow will give a tour of the 1816 Meetinghouse on...
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Farmington Meetinghouse
- Oct 18
- 3 min
Newsletter, September 26,2022
“REFLECTIONS ON A 50-YEAR JOURNEY THROUGH HAUDENOSAUNEE COUNTRY: MAJOR INSIGHTS GAINED ABOUT THE SIX NATIONS" Saturday, October 1, 2022,...
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Farmington Meetinghouse
- Oct 18
- 3 min
Newsletter, October 20,2022
LARRY HAUPTMAN AT GANONDAGAN We had a fine program at the Seneca Art and Culture Center at Ganondagan on October 1. In an informative and...
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Judith Wellman
- Feb 27
- 29 min
Listen to Their Voices: Farmington and the Underground Railroad
Introduction What was the Underground Railroad? Many people think of it as a network of safe houses in the North. That is certainly part...
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Judith Wellman
- Jul 9, 2021
- 4 min
The M'Clintock Family of Farmington
The M’Clintock Family of Farmington Quarterly Meeting: Equality, unity, and reform activism built upon Quaker faith and practice. The...
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Mary-Kay Belant
- Mar 27, 2021
- 2 min
Phebe Hathaway: Meeting the Moment on Temperance, Abolition, and Woman’s Rights
Farmington’s Phebe Hathaway (1819 – 1902) was positioned by time, place, family, and faith to work for the transformational reform...
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Paula Whitacre
- Mar 20, 2021
- 4 min
Harriet 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,...
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Paula Whitacre
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Julia Wilbur: From a Monroe County Farm to a Fight for Equal Rights
The currents of social reform that circulated in upstate New York in the mid-1800s produced many well-known leaders in abolitionism and...
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Judith Wellman
- Mar 8, 2021
- 3 min
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Farmington
Anybody who knows anything about women’s suffrage knows Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the catalyst for the first women’s rights...
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Florence Cardella
- Feb 26, 2021
- 4 min
Frederick Douglass & the FQMM
No celebration of Black History Month would be complete without honoring Frederick Douglass, considering his monumental influence on the...
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Mary-Kay Belant
- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Austin Steward's Farmington Friends
Austin Steward: Escaped to freedom, 1815, with help from Darius Comstock, Otis Comstock, and Amy Smith Comstock, Farmington Quakers...
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Mary-Kay Belant
- Feb 12, 2021
- 2 min
Mary and Emily Edmonson: Freedom Sought, Freedom Lost, Freedom Gained
On April 15, 1848, abolitionists executed a plan to free over 70 people enslaved by families in Washington, D.C. The freedom seekers were...
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Florence Cardella
- Feb 5, 2021
- 6 min
William Wells Brown, Rochester Voices, and Jason Reynolds
William Wells Brown (1814-1884) Widely regarded as the first African American novelist, Wells was also and abolitionist lecturer,...
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Farmington Meetinghouse
- Jun 20, 2018
- 2 min
2017 Review
The year was filled with many fine events and important steps forward in the evolution of the 1816 project. Restoration of the building...
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Farmington Meetinghouse
- Feb 1, 2018
- 2 min
End of Year 2017
To our friends of the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, As our 200th anniversary year draws to a close, we are writing to thank you...
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