Matilda Joslyn Gage Plaque - Fayetteville, NY
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N 43° 01.759 W 076° 00.505
18T E 417844 N 4764564
This is a plaque outside the Matilda Joslyn Gage Home which is now a museum and Center for Social Justice.
Waymark Code: WMRFG1
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 06/19/2016
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Matilda Joslyn Gage was active in Women's Rights as well as Native American Rights and she ran an Underground Railroad.
Her home has rooms dedicated to the different rights fights.
text on the plaque: "Matilda Joslyn Gage Home "There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. The word is Liberty!" reads Matilda Joslyn Gage's tombstone. Gage worked throughout her life (1826-1998) to extend liberty and equality to women and this held in slavery. In her childhood, Gage watched her parents shelter people fleeing slavery. She in turn, made this house a stop on the Underground Railroad. After she and her husband moved here in 1854, Gage joined the Underground Railroad network run by Reverend Jermain W. Loguen and his wife Caroline, the African American conductors of the main station in Syracuse. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were frequent visitors to the Gage home. Gage collaborated with them to found the National Woman Suffrage Association and published the organization's official newspaper from this house. She supported the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) struggle to win legal recognition of their treaty rights."