Important Buildings of Mid Hudson Antislavery History

First Congregational Church, Poughkeepsie,

dedicated 1859, many members were abolitionists.

Second Baptist Church in Poughkeepsie,

formerly home of the First Congregational Church

Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook, NY

St. James AME Zion Church, Beacon, NY,

founded by James Gomer, a slave

Mount Gulian Historic Site, the Verplanck home, and home

to freedom seeker James Brown, the gardener.