Sunday, October 22, 2017

North Star County--Map; and a Listing of Movements, Religions born here and people

Exhibit 1.2 The Fruits Born From North Star Country (Sacred Sites in North Star Country, page 14)

Movements Women’s Movement, Second Great Awakening, New Age Movement, Perfectionism, Social Gospel, Niagara Movement (predecessor to the NAACP), First Great Awakening*, Conservation* (Environmentalism with Transcendentalism’s focus on Nature.)

Religions Spiritualism, Mormonism, Millerism/Seven Day Adventists, Transcendentalism*, Theosophy*, Universalism*.

Prophets The Peacemaker, Handsome Lake (18th century Seneca prophet.)

Abolitionists, Women’s Rights Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Gerrit Smith, William Seward, Jermain Loguen. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Sojourner Truth*, William Lloyd Garrison*+,… 

Utopian Communities Oneida Community, Skaneateles Community, Sodus Bay Phalanx, Inspirationalists of Buffalo Creek, Kiantone Domain,…

Other Birthplace of (American) Democracy, food reform, clothing reform, Anti-masonry, Peace Society,…
*Outside of the core of North Star Country, but still within it.
+ Garrison’s home in the Roxbury section of Boston, now in private hands, sits on a FOC.

Map of North Star Country (circled area)




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