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Little Falls Historical Society Museum2022-04-08 11:36:412023-08-05 05:52:24African American Monument at Little Falls Church Street CemeteryEdwin Vogt & Little Falls Historical Society
Sidney Alva (infant) 1863
Sarah Bergman 1869
George Best 1857
Sylvester Best (infant) 1857
Rebecca Battison 1883
Mary Best (child) 1859
(?) Badson unknown
Beulah Champion 1938
John Champion 1937
Robert Champion 1977
Bertha May Creasey 1911
Sally Davis 1850
Charles Dygert 1857
George Dygert (infant) 1853
Horace Dygert 1870
George Ently 1853
Frank Feeter 1878
Elmira Flansburg 1878
Rachal Fuller 1878
William Gibbs (infant) 1860
Alfaretta Hastil (infant) 1856
Ella Harris (child) 1863
Francis Harris 1863
Catherine Harrison 1866
Susan Henry 1866
(Baby Boy) Hopkins 1961
George Jackson 1891
Infant Jackson 1853
Ira Jackson (infant) 1859
Phillip Jackson 1867
Samuel Jackson 1861
Cecilia Johnson 1897
Mercy Johnson 1860
Helena Jones 1891
Mary Kane 1864
Rose Lowe 1950
Abram Miller 1848
(Mrs.) Dean Miller 1876
Elizabeth Miller 1838
Cornelia Moore 1913
Francis E. Moore (child) 1862
Enoch Moore 1853
Florence Moore 1853
Gertrude Moore 1903
Grace Moore 1919
Isabelle Moore 1938
Willis E. Moore 1865
Flora A. Myers 1867
Flora L. Myers (infant) 1864
Francis Myers 1861
Andrew Nilson 1937
Charles Peterson 1915
Isabelle Peterson 1933
Lucinda Phillips 1896
Addison Phillips (youth) 1875
Edward Power 1856
Jane Prince 1903
Nancy Prince 1915
Julia C. Ray 1857
~Ray (woman) 1858
Richard Reese (infant) 1862
George Rest 1857
Little Rest 1857
Jerold Saltsman (infant) 1913
Mary Sharp (infant) 1855
Dolly N. Shewsbury (infant) 1856
Susan Shorter 1867
Maria Webster 1839
John Williams unknown
Andrew Wilson 1937
Hiram Wilson 1916
Sophronia Wilson 1919
Clara V. Wright 1957
George B. Wright 1965
Mabel Wright 1908
William Bartlett Wright 1936
CITY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONTINUE EFFORTS TO RECOGNIZE AFRICAN AMERICAN BURIAL GROUND
/by Little Falls Historical Society MuseumIt all began sometime in the early-2000s in the mind and heart of deceased former City Historian Edwin Vogt.
LOCAL AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY REFLECTED STATE AND NATIONAL EVENTS
/by Little Falls Historical Society MuseumThe primary purpose of this piece of writing is to chronicle a history of African American presence in Little Falls from the time of slavery up to the 2015 dedication of a monument in Little Falls Church Street Cemetery recognizing what was once known as the “Colored Burial Ground.”
The Underground Railroad In And Around Little Falls
/by Little Falls Historical Society MuseumThe Underground Railroad (URR) was a loosely organized network of people, (men and women, African American and white,) dedicated to helping people escape from bondage in the slave-holding states of the South to freedom in the antislavery states of the North and ultimately to Canada in the period before the Civil War.