Aurora, NY:
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| Emily Howland Elementary School of the Southern Cayuga Central Schools District, who in 2009 sent in a grant application to the Anne Frank Center, which had announced that it was giving 11 saplings cut from a large horse chestnut tree, mentioned by Anne Frank in her diary, to sites in the US that represented social justice and freedom |
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| The application stated that Quakers in the area believed in the equality of all men and women, and that the school is named for Emily Howland, who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony for women's rights; and as well, she founded many schools for freed blacks and their children in the South |
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| The Anne Frank Sapling was awarded to this small rural school district, and much thought went into the planning of the planting site and the planting ceremony in 2013 |
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| The sapling was planted within a hexagonal border (the internal shape of the Star of David) made of cobblestones like those in the streets of Europe; there are 11 boulders representing the trees given to US locations, and four smaller stones referencing the Four Perfect Pebbles, a book by Holocaust survivor Marion Blementhal Lazan, who spoke at the planting |
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| The sapling is now a sturdy tree |
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| The house (1880) where Emily Howland lived in Aurora; she was a Quaker and active abolitionist, and was able to build and supply fifty schools in the South with money provided by her father, Slocum Howland; in addition to her work on women's rights, she is credited with convincing Ezra Cornell, a Quaker, to make Cornell University a coeducational institution |
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| Howland Stone Store (1837) was owned by Slocum Howland, a Quaker who was an active Underground Railroad conductor, using his shipping connections to move Black freedom seekers to points north |
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| Harriet Tubman House (1881-1882), on property she purchased in 1859 from Frances Seward, wife of William Seward; Harriet and her family members lived in a frame farmhouse, until a careless boarder accidently set the house on fire in 1880 |
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| The brick house was designed and built by African Americans, including Harriet's second husband since 1869, Nelson Davis |
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| Harriet Tubman's barn (c 1850) |
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| In 1896, Harriet purchased an additional 25 acres, then in 1903 she transferred that property to the AME Zion Church to realize her dream of a home for the aged and infirm Negroes, which opened in 1908; Harriet herself moved into the home in 1911 and died there in 1913 |
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| Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1891); Harriet Tubman helped to fund building of the church, and attended services; her funeral was here on March 13, 1913 |
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| An aside: Auburn Memorial City Hall (1929-1930, in Colonial Revival style with a classic Ionic portico) |
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| New York State Equal Rights Heritage Center (2018, by nArchitects) features a collection of exhibits that highlight the history of the equal rights movement |
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| Harriet Tubman Quilt (2014, designed and painted by Blake Chamberlain, quilt by Sheila Frampton-Cooper) |
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| Statue (2018, by Brian P Hanlon) of Harriet Tubman, who escaped in 1849 and was conducted to Philadelphia where she became herself a conductor of the Under- ground Railroad, going on to make 19 trips from 1850-1860, rescuing 300 people by leading them to Canada (due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act when those who had escaped were no longer safe on US soil) |
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| Fort Hill Cemetery (1851) |
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| The grave of Harriet Tubman Davis |
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| Memorial inscribed on the back of the tombstone |
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| Graves of William and Frances Seward |
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