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Map views courtesy Google Maps. Street level view not available in this area. Address is GIS Database and Google Earth confirmed; 42°45'40.28"N 76°37'16.20"W. Current owner of record, Friends Of The Howland, Stone Store as of date (YMD) 190311.
Town of Scipio and Cayuga County Maps.
Nicely restored Howland Stone Store in Sherwood, Route 34b, east side, is now a museum. In 1837 Slocum Howland built this store in Sherwood, a crossroads hamlet between Cayuga and Owasco Lakes. Cayuga Lake gave it easy access to the Erie Canal. Our collection details the sale of local products such as wool and pork, and importation of manufactured products. The store was built from small stones picked up in local fields.
The Howland family was prominent in important reform movements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth century, particularly in the abolition of slavery, education, and women's suffrage. A prized Museum possession is an Underground Railroad pass brought by two slaves who escaped from Maryland and came to Slocum Howland (1794-1881) seeking freedom in 1840.
Miss Emily (1827-1929) first taught in schools for free blacks in Washington, D.C. in 1857. In addition to building a school in Sherwood, she founded and financially supported fifty schools for the emancipated blacks, teaching in several of them. Both Emily and her niece, Isabel (1859-1942), were active in the local, state and national women's suffrage movements; we have posters and other memorabilia representing their efforts. A "Cabinet of Curiosities," collected by the Howlands on their travels, includes everything from Arabian jewelry to coral from Capri.
In 2008, the organization acquired Opendore, which was Isabel's home. It is being renovated as an expanded part of the museum. They have interesting programs throughout the year. For further information: The Howland Stone Store Museum http://www.howlandstonestore.org/. Richard Palmer blog.
Restore Aging Library, by Richard F. Palmer, Syracuse American combined with The Post-Standard, Section 5, page 55, Sunday, August 15 1971.
New York Museum Acquires Howland House, American Association for State and Local History, P 88.
The Howland Stone Store Sherwood, NY Cayuga County, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cayugas Cobblestones", by Ward O'Hara 1991
- Pages 46 - 48
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 IMG_3647.jpg ² |  Sci_3_Doorway in Sherwood.jpg ² Rear entrance to Old Stone Store. |  Sci_3_Sherwood.jpg ³ Ruins of cobblestone foundation in rear of Howland Stone Store in Sherwood. Photo by the late Ward O'Hara in 1991. |
¹ Image courtesy Cobblestone Museum.
² Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
³ Photography courtesy Richard Palmer.
