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SOJOURNER TRUTH

Program
NYS Historic
Subject
Event, People
Location
157 NY-25A, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA
Lat/Long
40.871199, -73.457219
Grant Recipient
Preservation Long Island
Historic Marker

SOJOURNER TRUTH

Inscription

SOJOURNER TRUTH
ABOLITIONIST & SUFFRAGIST
VISITED HERE FOR 3 WEEKS.
CELEBRATED JULY 4, 1843 AT
TEMPERANCE MEETING WITH
METHODIST CONGREGATION.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2024

Sojourner Truth arrived in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, on July 4, 1843. She joined the local Methodist congregation at their newly built church on Main Street as they prepared to celebrate Independence Day. A procession led by the Friends of Temperance and composed of other local temperance societies ended with a dinner, reading of the Declaration of Independence and several speeches. Truth remained in the village for three weeks, then proceeded to Huntington where she took a boat to Connecticut.