Saratoga County
Although Saratoga County is not a “North Country” County, it was historically linked to the North Country by the Champlain Line of the Underground Railroad.
The Old Stone Church in Milton was the site of Anti-Slavery Meetings
The old Morey residence in Saratoga County just north of Ballston, near Route 29 and the North Milton Cemetery, is thought to have been an Underground Railroad stop. Mr. Morey is said to have transported slaves at dusk in wagons covered with hay. The home of the Quaker abolitionist Mason Anthony was a short distance away in Greenfield. In 1838, Anthony drove a young male runaway to fellow Quaker Rowland T. Robinson’s home in Ferrisburgh, Vermont.....more
Morey House
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