Excerpt from Worcester Women's History Heritage Trail: Worcester In the Struggle for Equality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century published by the Worcester Women's History Project, 2002.  

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS: Radical Abolitionist, Women’s Rights and Human Rights Activist Abby Kelley Foster was born on January 15, 1811, and spent much of her life in Worcester, attending a school in the Tatnuck section of the City and later purchasing with her husband Liberty Farm, which immediately became a stop on the Underground Railroad and in 1974 was registered as a National Historic Landmark; and