Johnstown History and Home Tour
July 18, 2009

Meeting Johnstown’s Leading Ladies

Our summer 2009 event focused on telling the life stories of four distinctive local women who changed history:  Molly Brant, Rose Knox, Barbara McMartin and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Each of these women is renown for her initiative, intelligence, innovative thinking, and insight. 
Click here for a July 18, 2009 tour program

Offered from 10am-3pm, tour members selected their own order for making home visits and for listening to special biographical talks about each of these four women. The locations for the talks were especially chosen because of their associated link to where and how these women made history. Lunch was included at the famous 1798 Union Hall Inn restaurant, also a part of Johnstown’s early history.

Nancy Brown, ECSHA founder, delivered the talk at Johnson Hall about Molly Brant, born a Canajoharie Mohawk in 1736 and consort of Sir William Johnson. She played a major role in maintaining good relations with the Native Americans in the Mohawk Valley region.

ECSHA members Anne Campos and Betty Cleary were docents at the Knox Mansion talking about eminent woman industrialist Rose Knox, of the Knox Gelatine Company. 
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Lori Salamack, ECSHA founder, invited tour members into her home’s Adirondack room.  Standing near the massive stone fireplace, she talked about Johnstown native Barbara McMartin, noted Adirondack writer who grew up in the house at 9 S. William Street where Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wrote the third volume of the History of Woman Suffrage.

And, daughter Allison Salamack, lead a Walking Tour around downtown Johnstown of Elizabeth Cady Stanton-associated locales as part of her Girl Scout Gold Award project.  The guided tour included a visit to the Johnstown Historical Society’s Cady family artifact exhibits.

Also featured was a Garden Tour by landscape designer Marty Krempa of the grounds at his South Melcher Street home; the DAR Chapter House was open for visitors from 10am-3pm and the bookstore, Mysteries on Main Street, organized a display by and about these “four great ladies” of Johnstown.


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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Hometown Association
P.O. Box 753
Johnstown, NY 12095-0753
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