Founders Day Walking Tour “Utopia Takes Shape in Broughton’s Meadow: Northampton Association Sites and Stories”
April 24, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Founders Day 2022 Walking Tour:
Utopia Takes Shape in Broughton’s Meadow: Northampton Association Sites and Stories
Join DRC historian Steve Strimer on a walking tour to learn the history of the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, a radical abolitionist utopian community established in Florence on April 8, 1842. Based on principles of racial, economic, and gender equality, the NAEI attracted men and women committed to these values, including famed abolitionists David Ruggles and Sojourner Truth. The David Ruggles Center for History and Education was created on this date in 2008 to commemorate this important history.
The tour will meet at the Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue located at the corner of Park and Pine Streets and will last approximately an hour and a half.
For more information, please email us at info@davidrugglescenter.org.