National Register of Historic Places

Gates, Cyrus, Farmstead

Maine, Broome County, New York
Listed
January 11, 1999
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
98001549

About this property

The Cyrus Gates Farmstead is located in Maine, New York. Cyrus Gates was a cartographer and map maker for New York State, as well as an abolitionist. The great granddaughter of Cyrus-Louise Gates-Gunsalus has stated that from 1848 until the end of slavery in the United States in 1865, the Cyrus Gates Farmstead was a station or stop on the Underground Railroad (Woodward 1973). Its owners, Cyrus and Arabella Gates, were outspoken abolitionists as well as active and vital members of their community. Historian Shirley L. Woodward states that through those years escaped slaves came through the Gates' station. One runaway female slave, a 16-year-old girl named Margaret "Marge" Cruiser was so comfortable with the Gates family that she decided to stay at their station and live with them. Marge ended up spending the rest of her life with the Gates and is buried in the cemetery next to the house. (Woodward 1973 pp 52–53). Margaret was also known as the wife of Thomas "Old Bay Tom" Crocker. Mr. Crocker was famous for being the first African-American to be elected as mayor of Binghamton, New York, albeit a protest vote that was reversed in the election of 1872. (Smith 2014).

Location

10-17 Old Nanticoke Rd.
Maine, Broome County, New York
42.24787, -76.04086

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Gates, Cyrus, Farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 11, 1999.

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