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Helen Pitts Douglass – Advocate, Wife, Keeper of the Flame
While the interracial marriage between Helen Pitts of Honeoye, NY, and Frederick Douglass, pre-eminent leader of Nineteenth-Century Black America, scandalized many in the country and in Douglass’ family, Helen’s life […]
The Underground Railroad
Rochester and Central New York were a hotbed of social and religious change in 19th-century America. In the face of laws and practices designed to enforce the status quo of […]
Frederick and Anna Douglass: Family Life of a Very Public Man in the 1800s
Presenter Rose O’Keefe is a non-fiction and historical fiction author in Rochester, New York. In the process of falling in love with the Finger Lakes area, she became keenly interested […]
The Rochester Riot of 1872
Rochester was the center of national attention in November 1872 with the arrest of Susan B. Anthony for voting in the election. Just days into the same year, the city […]
Rochester Mystery: the Disappearance of Emma Moore
When the daughter of a respected Rochester family inexplicably disappeared in November 1854, the mysterious incident was reported in the New York Times and newspapers across the country. Four months […]
Leander McCord, Jr. – Rochester’s Architect of the Roaring Twenties
Leander W. McCord Jr. was one of the Rochester region’s foremost residential architects of the Jazz Age. His career spanned from the early 1910s through the late 1940s, reaching its […]
Mourning in the Morning: Holocaust Survivors in Mount Hope Cemetery
In the spring of 2021, a committee of The Friends of Mount Hope began a project to recognize and remember the many Holocaust survivors buried in our cemetery. We have […]
