Photographs

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  • December 18, 2006 putting netting on the Meetinghouse to keep debris from blowing out to neighbor's yards and into the street. Photo by Charles Lenhart.
  • Farmington Meetinhouse
  • Farmington Meetinghouse
  • Farmington Meetinhouse
  • Farmington Meetinghouse
  • The Meetinghouse in 1927 before removal to adjoining property for use as a barn. From Rochester Public Library Genealogical Section's file on Quakers. - From Newspaper clipping
  • Exterior image taken in 1958. When the Meetinghouse was being used as a barn. Lewis Allen standing in front. Image taken by Charles Lenhart of xerox copy of original picture that (the xerox copy) is in possession of Helen Kirker.
  • This is an interior picture of the 1816 Farmington Meetinghouse taken circa 1890. The man standing was verified to be John J. Cornell, a Quaker minister associated with neighboring Mendon, New York. This picture was photographed by Charles Lenhart from the file of the historian for theTown of Farmington, Margaret Hartsough.
  • Farmington Meetinghouse after beginning the emergency stabilization in December 2007.
  • Austin Steward (1792 to Feb 15, 1869). Started life as a slave of William Helm of Virginia who moved to Sodus, then Bath, New York. Freed by a Farmington (New York) manumission commission led by Darius Comstock. Afterwards spent 4 years with Darius Comstock's brother, Otis Comstock (first white settler in Farmington in 1790) working on Otis's farm in Farmington and going to school there. Later at Rochester, then Wilberforce (Canada), and finally at Canandaigua. Image from Austin Steward's autobiography - "Twenty-two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman"
  • William Wells Brown lived in Farmington, New York for several years in the mid 1840s. In 1847, Joseph C Hathaway, a Quaker abolitionist living in Farmington, New York wrote the preface for "The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave" by William Wells Brown. The image is from that book - "The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave" by William Wells Brown. Published No. 25 Cornhill, Boston, in 1847 at the Anti-Slavery Office.
  • A seemingly festive occasion at the 1816 Farmington Meetinghouse. Undated. From Macedon historian, Helen Burgio's files. Digital picture taken by Charles Lenhart of original picture.
  • Sunderland P. Gardner. Farmington, New York Hicksite Quaker Minister for about 60 years. Image from "Memoirs Of Sunderland P Gardner" Published by Friends Book Association, 15th and Race Streets, Philadelphia, 1895
  • Surveyors map for the region around the Meeting House on County Road 8 in Farmington NY.
  • Interior of the Farmington meetinghouse. Courtesy of Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore.
  • 1927 newspaper images of the Farmington meetinghouse.
  • Porch and interior. Image from Helen Burgio's scrapbook file.