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Some historical cemeteries in this area of NY
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Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away...
When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn’t see him there at all! Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)
Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away…
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Some historical cemeteries:
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Charlotte Cemetery
located near the Port of Rochester, is the burial place for many early settlers of the city's northwest side, including the Latta family. It is also the resting place of famed early daredevil, Sam Patch, who attempted to jump off of the 83-ft High Falls of the Genesee River.
Brighton Cemetery
It is one of the oldest cemeteries in the area, dedicated in 1821. Many of Brighton's early pioneers are buried here while others are buried in Rochester's Mt. Hope Cemetery which was dedicated in 1838.
William Clough Bloss
Born January 19, 1795 Birthplace West Stockbridge, MA Died April 18, 1863 Grave Site Brighton Cemetery, Brighton, NY Contribution Abolitionist, reformer and New York State legislator
William Clough Bloss was born on January 19, 1795, in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His parents, Joseph and Amy Wentworth Kennedy Bloss, were farmers. His father was a veteran of the American Revolution.During the 1830s, Bloss became involved in the anti-slavery movement. In the summer of 1833, he signed a call for the first New York Anti-Slavery Convention in Utica, New York
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Mount Hope Cemetery
one of the most remarkable Victorian cemeteries in America, is a magnificent 196 acres of lofty hills and picturesque valleys created by glaciers and transformed into a beautiful historic cemetery. A diversified forest of trees forms an arboretum shading thousands of marble, bronze, and granite monuments. The cemetery is a veritable museum of funerary sculpture and mausoleums spanning more
than a century and a half.
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History of Rochester, New York
[History of Rochester, New York]:
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American Revolution
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by Benjamin Franklin was recycled to encourage the former colonies to unite
against British rule.
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American Revolution [map]
American Civil War
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Early settlement
Following the American Revolution,
western New York was opened up for development as soon as New York andMassachusetts compromised and settled their competing claims for the area in December 1786 by the Treaty of Hartford. The compromise was that, while New York would have political sovereignty over the land, Massachusetts would have pre-emptive rights to obtain title from the Native Americans and own (and profit from selling) the land
Abolitionists and the Civil War
In 1847
a former slave who became an abolitionist leader, commenced publishing a newspaper "The North Star" in Rochester. Douglass delivered his fiery speech "The Meaning of July Fourth to the Negro"[1] before the Rochester Ladies Antislavery Association at Corinthian Hall, Rochester, on July 5, 1852. In 1857, Susan B. Anthony andWilliam Lloyd Garrison spoke at an abolition meeting. In October, 1858, William H. Seward, a leading opponent of slavery, delivered a speech to an overflowing Republican crowd in Corinthian Hall. He argued that the political and economic systems of North and South were incompatible, famously saying that the "irrepressible conflict" between the two systems would eventually result in the nation becoming "either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation."[4]
In the years leading up to the Civil War, numerous locations in the Rochester area were used as safe-houses to shelter fugitive slaves before they were placed on board boats (often on the Genesee River) for transport to Canada. The route was part of the famous Underground Railroad. One contemporary described the Frederick Douglass homes as "a labyrinth of secret panels and closets, where he secreted the poor human wretches from the man hunters and the blood-hounds, who were usually not far behind.”,[5]
Other 'stations' were located in the areas surrounding Rochester, including Brighton, Pittsford, Mendon and Webster. A station in North Chili, just west of Rochester, run by abolitionist Methodists was an important site in the formation of theFree Methodist Church, which was formed in 1860. The denomination's first college, Roberts Wesleyan College, was built on the site.
Women's rights movement
Rochester was involved with women's rights from an early date. The Rochester Women's Rights Convention, which met on August 2, 1848, was the second such convention in the nation. (The first was the Seneca Falls Convention, which met two weeks earlier in Seneca Falls, a town nor far away.) The Rochester convention elected a woman as its presiding officer, a highly controversial step at the time that was opposed even by some of the meeting's leading participants.[6]This convention was the first public meeting composed of both men and women in the U.S. to take that step.[7]
a national leader of the women's suffrage movement, was from Rochester. In a case that generated a national controversy, she was arrested for voting in Rochester in 1872, well before it was legal for women to vote. She was tried in a federal circuit court presided over by a Supreme Court justice. When the judge directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict and ordered Anthony to pay a fine of $100, Anthony responded, "I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty", and she never did.[8] As a young woman, she was widely ridiculed for her views on women's rights, but she was increasingly respected as the nation began to take her ideas seriously. She celebrated her eightieth birthday at the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley.[9] The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote in 1920, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment because of her decades of work toward its passage, which she did not live to see.[10] Anthony's home is now a National Historic Landmark known as the
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