Conway Colony historic site (Yellow Springs, Ohio)
USA /
Ohio /
Yellow Springs /
Yellow Springs, Ohio /
Corry Street
World
/ USA
/ Ohio
/ Yellow Springs
World / United States / Ohio
place with historical importance, interesting place
A historic site marker on this spot describes the extraordinary story of Moncure Daniel Conway and the Conway Colony.
Moncure Conway was the abolitionist son of a slave owning family in Virginia. When his family's slaves were freed during the chaos of the Civil War, he traveled south to help bring them to safety. Stories differ on the exact number of people involved, but between 30 to 90 newly freed slaves made the dangerous wartime journey by rail through the slave state of Maryland.
Dunmore and Eliza Gwinn were considered the leading members of the colony, and their family homestead was located just to the east of the historic marker. A number of Yellow Springs residents trace their ancestry to the Gwinn family.
Photo of the marker is available at the following site: www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM22ZW
Detailed story from Yellow Springs News: www.ysnews.com/stories/2003/june/061203_colony.html
And more at Fredericksburg.com:
fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/022002/02092002/503791...
Moncure Conway was the abolitionist son of a slave owning family in Virginia. When his family's slaves were freed during the chaos of the Civil War, he traveled south to help bring them to safety. Stories differ on the exact number of people involved, but between 30 to 90 newly freed slaves made the dangerous wartime journey by rail through the slave state of Maryland.
Dunmore and Eliza Gwinn were considered the leading members of the colony, and their family homestead was located just to the east of the historic marker. A number of Yellow Springs residents trace their ancestry to the Gwinn family.
Photo of the marker is available at the following site: www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM22ZW
Detailed story from Yellow Springs News: www.ysnews.com/stories/2003/june/061203_colony.html
And more at Fredericksburg.com:
fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/022002/02092002/503791...
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moncure_D._Conway
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 39°47'38"N 83°52'59"W
- Indian Mound Reserve 6.6 km
- George Rogers Clark Park 14 km
- Huffman Prairie Flying Field 16 km
- South Park Historic District 26 km
- Grimes Field 40 km
- Olde Town East 79 km
- Near East Historic District 79 km
- Flint Ridge State Memorial 139 km
- West Virginia Ordinance Works 180 km
- Fort Boreman Historical Park 206 km
- Miami Township 2.3 km
- Cemex Fairborn Cement 7.5 km
- Cedarville Township 10 km
- Greene County, OH 10 km
- Xenia Township 11 km
- Bath Township 12 km
- Beavercreek Township 15 km
- Clark County, Ohio 15 km
- Wright Patterson Air Force Base (FFO/KFFO) 16 km
- Miami County, Ohio 40 km