KATIE'S BELLS

This letterbox is located in the Peterboro (new)Cemetery in Peterboro, NY. This is the cemetery that Garrett Smith was laid to rest. To help you brush up on your American history. Wiki says: Gerrit Smith (March 6, 1797 – December 28, 1874) was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. Spouse to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate for President of the United States in 1848, 1856, and 1860, but only served 18 months in the federal government—in Congress as a Free Soil Party Representative, in 1853–4.[1] Smith, a significant financial contributor to the Liberty Party and the Republican Party throughout his life, spent much time and money working towards social progress in the nineteenth century United States. Besides making substantial donations of both land and money to the African-American community in North Elba, New York, he was involved in the Temperance Movement and, later in life, the colonization movement.[2] A staunch abolitionist, he was a member of the Secret Six who financially supported John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.[3]

It was a beautiful night. We didn't really have a lot of time to do a long search, so this one sounded good to us. Jessica came along and ended up filling her original stamp book up after all these years with this stamp.

We like to letterbox in cemeteries because there are so many interesting grave stones, and especially the old ones around here in NY because there is so much history from Revolutionary War to current. We walk humbly and respectfully through the headstones and learn as much as we can about people we know nothing about.