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Major Horace Nye House Was Included in the District OMB Control No. 1024-0232 Expires: 07/31/2016 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD NETWORK TO FREEDOM GENERAL INFORMATION Type (pick one): Site Facility Program Name (of what you are nominating): Major Horace and Lucinda Belknap Nye House (aka: Nye-Potts House) Address: 228 Adams Street City, State, Zip: Zanesville, Ohio 43701 County: Muskingum Congressional District: Ohio - 12 Physical Boundaries of Site/facility: Address not for publication? Date Submitted: January 15, 2016 (Round 31) Resubmission: Yes No Round: Is there a website? Yes No Address: Is there a visitor phone number? Yes No Phone number: Summary: Tell us in 200 words or less what is being nominated and how it is connected to the Underground Railroad. Built in 1830, this five-bay brick, center hall late Federal Style house located in Putnam, Ohio (now Zanesville) was home to Major Horace Nye (1786-1859) and his second wife Lucinda Belknap Nye (1792- 1874). Both were active abolitionists who participated in the Underground Railroad. Major Nye participated in Ohio Anti-Slavery Society state conventions held in Putnam’s Stone Academy in 1835 and 1839, presiding at the later event. His wife was president of the Muskingum County Female Anti-Slavery Society.1 They were members of the Putnam Presbyterian Church, which had strong ties to the Underground Railroad, and is recognized as a site in the Network to Freedom. Nye’s surviving children, one of which was also active, later shared their father’s involvement in the Underground Railroad. The home sits squarely on the street as was typical of more densely populated towns in the east. Particularly noteworthy is the raised doorway with fan light. The house is listed on the National Register as part of Zanesville’s Putnam Historic District for “… the significant role that Putnam residents and institutions played in the Ohio debate about the abolition of slavery and the activity of sheltering fugitive slaves in the years prior to the Civil War.”2 The house is currently a private residence. 1 National Register of Historic Places, Putnam Historic District, Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, #75001511, Section 8, page 6. 2 National Register of Historic Places, Putnam Historic District, Section 8, page 3.The National Historic Register nomination was amended in 2003 to included Abolition and Underground Railroad. It was at this time the Major Horace Nye House was included in the district. 1 OMB Control No. 1024-0232 Expires: 07/31/2016 FOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE USE ONLY I hereby certify that this site facility program is included in the Network to Freedom. __________________________________ _________________ Signature of certifying official/Title Date Owner (Share contact information Yes No) Name: Wayne and Paulette Knazek Address: 228 Adams Street City, State, Zip: Zanesville, Ohio 43701 Phone: 440-622-9744 Fax: E-mail: [email protected] Owner/Manager (Share contact information Yes No) Name: Address: City, State, Zip: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Owner/Manager (Share contact information Yes No) Name: Address: City, State, Zip: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Application Preparer (Enter only if different from contact above.) (Share contact information Yes No) Name: James Geyer Address: 115 Jefferson Street City, State, Zip: Zanesville, Ohio 436701 Phone: 740-454-9500 Fax: E-mail: [email protected] Privacy Information: The Network to Freedom was established, in part, to facilitate sharing of information among those interested in the Underground Railroad. Putting people in contact with others who are researching related topics, historic events, or individuals or who may have technical expertise or resources to assist with projects is one of the most effective means of advancing Underground Railroad commemoration and preservation. Privacy laws designed to protect individual contact information (i.e., home or personal addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, or e-mail addresses), may prevent NPS from making these connections. If you are willing to be contacted by others working on Underground Railroad 2 OMB Control No. 1024-0232 Expires: 07/31/2016 activities and to receive mailings about Underground Railroad-related events, please add a statement to your letter of consent indicating what information you are willing to share. Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: The authority to collect this information is the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act (P.L. 105-203). We will use this information to evaluate properties, facilities, and programs nominated for inclusion in the Network to Freedom. We may not conduct or sponsor and you are not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Your response is required to obtain or retain a benefit. Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 25 hours per response including time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining data, and completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding this burden estimate or any aspect of this form to the Information Collection Clearance Officer, National Park Service, 1201 I Street, MS 1237, Washington, DC 20005. 3 OMB Control No. 1024-0232 Expires: 07/31/2016 SITES: In addition to the responses to each question, applications must also include the following attachments: 1) Letters of consent from all property owners for inclusion in the Network to Freedom (see sample in instructions) 2) Text and photographs of all site markers 3) Original photographs illustrating the current appearance and condition of the site being nominated 4) Maps showing the location of the site All attachments supplement, but do not replace the text. S1. Type: Building Object District (neighborhood) Structure Landscape/natural feature Archeological site Other (describe): S2. Is the site listed in the National Register of Historic Places? Yes No What is the listing name: Putnam Historic District (# 75001511) S3. Ownership of site: Private Private, non-profit (501c3) Public, local government Public, State government Public, Federal government S4a. Type(s) of Underground Railroad Association (select the one(s) that fit best) Station Assoc. w/ prominent person Legal challenge Escape Rescue Kidnapping Maroon community Destination Church Cemetery Military site Transportation route Commemorative site/monument Historic District/Neighborhood Archeological site Other (describe) S4. Describe the site’s association and significance to the Underground Railroad. Provide citations for sources used throughout the text. Timelines are encouraged. The Major Horace Nye House (also known as the Nye-Potts House) listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Putnam Historic District of Zanesville, was the home of one of the community’s most active abolitionists who participated in the Underground Railroad, and his second wife, Lucinda Belknap, herself a noted anti- slavery activist. The Nyes were members of the Putnam community which was a very active in the Underground Railroad. Originally known as Springfield, the name was changed to 4 OMB Control No. 1024-0232 Expires: 07/31/2016 Putnam in 1814. Putnam had a reputation as “a strong anti-slavery place.”3 Many of those that settled the area “being of New England stock were ardent advocates of human freedom.”4 When Harriet Beecher Stowe visited in 1837, in a letter to her husband, she reported that half of Putnam’s residents were abolitionists.5 Horace Nye, was born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, on June 8, 1786, the son of Ichabod and Minerva Nye.6 In 1788, the family moved to Ohio.7 In 1806, Horace came to Putnam to work in his uncle’s store.8 He later served as a major in the Ohio militia in the War of 1812. After the war, he returned to Putnam where he established a tannery on the southwest end of Adams Street.9 He married his first wife Fannie daughter of Dr. Jonas Safford, in 1813. Following her death in 1829, he married Lucinda Belknap.10 Described as “a woman of strong convictions and independent thought,” Lucinda Belknap Nye was born in 1791 in Newburgh, New York.11 She came to Ohio in 1819 with her family. Before marrying she taught at the Stone Academy, listed in the Network to Freedom. The Nyes and the Underground Railroad Evidence of the Nyes’ participation in the Underground Railroad primarily comes from their children. Major Nye’s son (by his first marriage), Dr. Horace Safford (H.S.) Nye (1817-1902), in a post script in a letter to historian Wilbur H. Siebert wrote, “Major Horace Nye, A.A. Guthrie, Mathew Gillespie, Levi Whipple were among the bravest and most fearless conductors. All honor them and their like and may be written testimony to 12 their memory never be effaced!” 3 Rev. T. M. Steavenson, “Letter to Wilbur Siebert,” 22 August 1892, Wilbur H. Siebert Collection [microfilm] (Columbus: Ohio Historical Society), reel 11. 4 Thomas J. Sheppard, “An Abolition Center,” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications 19 (1910): 265. 5 Charles Stowe, The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1890), 87. Also see, Norris F. Schneider, Y Bridge City: The Story of Zanesville and Muskingum County, Ohio (Cleveland: World Publishing Co, 1950), 202. 6 Nye Family of America Association, Proceedings of the First Reunion at Sandwich, Massachusetts August Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh 1903 (New Bedford, MA: E. Anthony & Sons Inc., 1903), 82. 7 Nye Family of America Association, Proceedings of the Third Reunion at Marietta, Ohio August Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth 1905 (Federalsburg, MD: J.W. Stowell Printing Co., 1905), 59. 8 His uncle was General Tupper. 9 Nye Family of America Association, Proceedings of the First Reunion, 82. 10 Ibid. and Norris F. Schneider, “Descendants of Original Builders Still Own Property,” The Zanesville News, 20 February 1944. The earlier source, which includes a sketch by the daughter of Horace and Lucinda Nye, Mary F. Potts, gives the exact date of their marriage as October 7, 1830.
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