Union and 3rd Sts., Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. County/parish: Jefferson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 30, 1974. NRIS 74001537.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Benjamin Lundy House is a historic house at Union and Market Streets in Mount Pleasant, Ohio. It was home in 1820 to abolitionist Benjamin Lundy (1789–1839), where he established the influential anti-slavery newspaper The Genius of Universal Emancipation, one of the first anti-slavery publications in the United States. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in May 1974, and was included in the Mount Pleasant Historic District later the same year.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71986505