Essex County
John Brown
Essex County's most renowned abolitionists, John and Mary Brown, moved from Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Adirondack Mountains with seven of their children in 1849. At first, they rented the Flanders farm on Cascade Road. Cyrus Thomas, a fugitive slave from Florida who followed them from Springfield, lived there with them.
But did fugitive slaves stay with the Browns in their permanent home at North Elba? Some say they didn’t. And some say they did....more
John Brown Farm, North Elba
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