Antique New Jersey Print - The Historic Burlington Quaker Meeting House - built 1783 - The Underground Railroad In New Jersey

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Treasures from THE PHILADELPHIA / DELAWARE VALLEY COLLECTION at The Willing Mind. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 20 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a standard size store bought frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN NEW JERSEY
Burlington Meeting House, High Street, Burlington, New Jersey.

Built in 1783 to replace the original wooden hexagonal meeting house of 1683, the meeting house today has been restored and updated into a conference center and retreat. The meeting house looking very much as it did 230 years ago, with a modern facility in like style extending away from High Street with dorm room accommodations upstairs for 88 people, modern kitchen and conference spaces, etc.

The grave marker of Chief Ockanickon nestles against a 300 year old sycamore behind the meeting house as part of a large Quaker graveyard, final resting place of a number of Quaker colonists who had been important to the history of early New Jersey and later, important activists in the Abolitionist Movement.

Burlington touts itself as a hotbed of the Underground Railroad, and their tourism literature promotes that regularly. What always surprises me is the minimal tip of the hat to the Quaker abolitionists dedicated to their core to the fight against the institution of slavery. This Friends Meeting House and the Quaker pharmacist William Allinson's Burlington Pharmacy across the street, still the oldest continually running pharmacy in the United States, were stalwart characters and at times very public players in the struggle in this part of the country.

One of a series of remarkable views of historic Burlington City along the Delaware River, drawn on stone by John Collins, 1847. Lithograph by T. Sinclair, Philadelphia. Nearly a decade ago we acquired and restored the whole series of Collins' works, we will finally begin to present them here for your consideration over the next few weeks.

***NOTE*** We do have a quietly magnificent view from the same series featuring the original City Hall and Allinson's Burlington Pharmacy which we are preparing now. Stay tuned!

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