The Underground Railroad (URR) was a loosely organized network of people, (men and women, African American and white,) dedicated to helping people escape from bondage in the slave-holding states of the South to freedom in the antislavery states of the North and ultimately to Canada in the period before the Civil War.
Recollections by Allen Kazmerski from the Little Falls Historical Society 2023 Writing Series dedicated to Edward J. Cooney.
In this week’s The Wampum Chronicles, Darren Bonaparte continues with Enter Joseph Brant.
A patent issued by King George II of England, bestowed to John Jost Schnell and Jacob Zimmerman 3,600 acres of land north of the Mohawk River across from the General Herkimer home.
In this week’s The Wampum Chronicles, Darren Bonaparte continues with New York Disposes of Northern New York.
The Friends of Johnson Hall has been awarded $27,585 to develop an app that will enhance the traditional tour through the historic house.
In this week’s The Wampum Chronicles, Darren Bonaparte continues with Treaties of Contention with New York Disposes of Northern New York.
In this week’s The Wampum Chronicles, Darren Bonaparte continues with The Six Nations and Tyendinaga Reserves and The “Central Fire” Moves to Buffalo Creek.
In this week’s The Wampum Chronicles, Darren Bonaparte continues with The Building of the Stone Church and The Drawing of the Border.
In this week’s The Wampum Chronicles, Darren Bonaparte begins with “Treaties of Contention“ and the suspicious quit claims by Brandt and Cook.