All together, Smith granted 120,000 acres of his Adirondack property to 3000 free Black residents of New York State to help empower them through land ownership and help them to qualify to vote.
1832–1911), and the abolitionist editor Willis Augustus Hodges who had recently established a small, short-lived settlement of African American pioneers called “Blacksville” near the lake.
one half mile east of Loon Lake and a similar distance west of Hunter's Home, a rustic inn operated by the family of Apollos (“Paul”) Smith.
However, Town of Franklin tax assessments from the 1850s show that Stephen B. Morehouse owned 11 acres in Lot 183 NW a short distance to the west of the road.
[1][2][3] In February 1864, the 54th joined a Union army advance from Jacksonville, Florida, toward Tallahassee that encountered unexpectedly strong resistance from Confederate forces on the outskirts of Olustee.
[4] According to Luis Fenellosa Emilio, one of the regiment’s officers, the 54th was called to battle in late afternoon to rescue the Union troops being overwhelmed by Confederate forces.
[11][12] In August 1865, the regiment mustered out at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and in September marched through the streets of Boston to cheering crowds.
The 1870 Franklin census noted that he worked as a “waitingman” at Sarah Hill’s inn on the south end of the hamlet, and a map of Vermontville published in 1876 indicated a “W.
[1] Local census and tax assessment documents indicate that his wife Charlotte continued to live at the Swinyer Road property until ca.
[16] Warren Morehouse’s biography was summarized in “Dreaming of Timbuctoo,” a historical exhibit based at the John Brown Farm in North Elba, NY.