Quaker History - period ended 4.15.2006

Quaker History - period ended 4.15.2006

Quaker History/Free Quakers/Greene, Nathanael/A greener downtown/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/12-Apr-06//... But until now, downtown lacked public art honoring Greene. A Rhode Islander, he was a fighting Quaker, rising to second in the Army behind George Washington. ..

Quaker History/Real Estate Development/Farming//Rezone 1.9 acres/Greensboro News Record/Greensboro/NC/USA/3-Apr-06//... for a bed-and-breakfast. It will be in a farmhouse on a former Quaker model farm that was built in 1866 to teach farming methods. ...

Quaker History/Farming/Slavery//Secluded splendor on Route 1/Washington Times/Washington/DC/USA/9-Apr-06//... "We know very little about the enslaved community," Ms. Hawkins says. "At other old plantation homes, archaeology has been able to tell us about the enslaved population, but not here."
This is because of Woodlawn's more recent history. After the Lewises sold the property in the mid-1850s, it had several owners. In the late 1800s, a large Quaker community moved in and farmed the land so intensely it upended the soil to the extent that any remnants from the enslaved community were lost, Ms. Hawkins says. ...

Quaker History/Business/Cadbury, John//Sweet Charity/ChristianityToday.com/Washington/DC/USA/10-Apr-06//... Cadburys fought back with cocoa. The Cadburys belonged to the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. As dissenters from the ...

Quaker History/Bailey House/Bailey, Jonathan and Rebecca/Seek city, national recognition for structure/Whittier Daily News/Whittier/CA/USA/8-Apr-06//... The Bailey House on Camilla Street was built by Jacob Gerkens in 1868-1869 and was lived in by Whittier's first Quaker settlers, Jonathan and Rebecca Bailey ...

Quaker History/Abolition/Whittier, John Greenleaf/With Whittier, Salisbury's loss is Amesbury's gain/Newburyport Daily News/Newburyport/MA/USA/12-Apr-06//... Whittier, a Quaker abolitionist and one of the country's most famous 19th-century poets, was born in Haverhill in 1807 and lived 56 years of his life in ...

Quaker History////B&B in bandit country/Belfast Telegraph/Belfast/N. Ireland/UK/12-Apr-06//... I stopped off in nearby Bessbrook, a picturesque, early Quaker settlement and model village with handsome rows of terraced houses built in granite stone. ...

Quaker History/Civil Rights/Segregation///Return to Rocky Springs protests/Lancaster Newspapers/Lancaster/PA/USA/8-Apr-06//... The Freedoms Committee was partly influenced by the local Unitarian-Universalist and Quaker congregations and tackled housing and other civil rights concerns, he said.

“I was sympathetic” to what they were doing, said Pfannebecker, a Unitarian and a Democrat who was involved in a number of progressive causes. He was used to issues that “rocked the boat,” he said.
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