ROCHESTER
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Rochester incorporated April 28, 1834
Rochester has played a key part in US history as a hub for certain important social and political movements, especially abolition of slavery in the 1800s and the women’s rights movement including the right to vote (women suffrage movement).
In 1847, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), a former slave, founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star in Rochester.
Frederick Douglass (c. February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
In 1877, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) bought an Anacostia home in Washington, D.C., on a hill above the Anacostia River. He and his wife Anna named it Cedar Hill. They expanded the house from 14 to 21 rooms, and included a china closet. One year later, Douglass purchased adjoining lots and expanded the property to 15 acres. The home is now preserved as the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.
In 1889, President Benjamin Harrison appointed Douglass as the United States’s minister resident and consul-general to the Republic of Haiti and Chargé d’affaires for Santo Domingo in 1889, serving until 1891. On February 20, 1895, Douglass passed away after returning home from a meeting of the National Council of Women in Washington, D.C.
In 1899, a statue of Frederick Douglass was unveiled in Rochester, New York, making Douglass the first African American to be so memorialized in the country.
In 2007, the former Troup–Howell bridge, which carried Interstate 490 over the Genesee River in Rochester, was redesigned and renamed the Frederick Douglass – Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge.
Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906), a national leader of the women’s suffrage movement, was from Rochester. The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in 1920, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.
Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was born in Adams, Massachusetts. She was raised in Battenville, New York and resided in Rochester, New York.
The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum is a historic house museum at 67 East Road in Adams, Massachusetts. This is the birthplace of suffragist Susan B. Anthony in 1820. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
The Susan B. Anthony Childhood House in Battenville, New York was built in 1832. It was a childhood home of suffragette Susan B. Anthony. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement, which gave women the right to vote. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
In 1863, they founded the Women’s Loyal National League, which conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery.
In 1866, they initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. In 1868, they began publishing a women’s rights newspaper called The Revolution. In 1869, they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the women’s movement.
The Susan B. Anthony House, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, where women made history, was the home of Susan B. Anthony for forty years, while she was a national figure in the women’s rights movement. She was arrested in the front parlor after voting in the 1872 Presidential Election and fined $100 (she never paid it). She resided here until her death.
The Visitor Center and Museum Shop are located in the historic house next door, 19 Madison Street. The house was purchased for use as a memorial in 1945, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965. The Susan B. Anthony Dollar was issued in 1979 in her honor.
Today, the Susan B. Anthony House is a learning center and museum open to the public for tours and programs from 11-5 Tuesday through Sunday, except major holidays. Its full name is the National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House.
In 1892, Frederick Douglass, who worked closely with Anthony, constructed rental housing for Blacks, now known as Douglass Place, in the Fells Point area of Baltimore. The complex still exists at 516-524 South Dallas Street, Baltimore, Maryland. On September 15, 1983 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Rochester and Oklahoma City tied as the second most affordable cities in the world (yes, world) by the Urban Reform Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy for 2022. This new study from the two nonprofits covering 92 cities in 8 different countries, shows the Steel City, Pittsburgh, edged out every other major metropolitan area in the world as number one.
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