Liberty Farm is a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

 at 116 Mower Street in Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester, Massachusetts

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The brick house was built in 1810 in a Federal style. It was added to the National Historic Register in 1974. Abolitionists and suffragists Abby Kelley Foster and Stephen Symonds Foster

Stephen Symonds Foster

Stephen Symonds Foster was a radical American abolitionist known for his dramatic and aggressive style of public speaking, and for his stance against those in the church who failed to fight slavery. His marriage to Abby Kelley Foster brought his energetic activism to bear on women's rights...

 owned the house from 1847 to 1883 and refused to pay taxes on the house because of Kelly's lack of suffrage. Paulina Wright "Alla" Foster was born at Liberty Farm in 1847, the only child that the couple would have. The farm served both as a stop on the underground railroad

Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists,...

for escaped slaves and as a refuge for fellow reformers. Stephen Symonds Foster died at Liberty Farm in 1881.