Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1899.
From the record
“The North Street Friends Meetinghouse is a brick structure on Brick Church Road in the town of Ledyard, near Aurora, Cayuga County, New York. It is significant for its associations with abolition, the Underground Railroad and the Women's Rights Movement in Central New York.”
Wikipedia article North Street Friends Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 71 National Register listings published here for Cayuga County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
Also known as. Freedom Trail, Abolitionism, and African American Life in Central New York MPS
Town. Ledyard town
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number.05001386- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
50 since 2003
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 50 fires within 5 miles of North Street Friends Meetinghouse
between 2003 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
23
Arson/incendiarism
11
Debris and open burning
7
Natural
6
Equipment and vehicle use
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of North Street Friends Meetinghouse: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ledyard, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Widespread flash flooding of most creeks and urbanized areas occurred throughout the town of Venice. Culverts and roads were washed out in several locations. Some residences and businesses experienced flooding.
Thunderstorms caused scattered straight line wind damage across a large area of southern Cayuga County. About 20 to 30 structures sustained at least minor damage. The towns affected were Ledyard, Venice, Scipio, Genoa, and Moravia. The most significant damage was a roof that was ripped off a home in Poplar Ridge (town of Venice) and damage to several barns and silos in Venice, Venice Center, and Scipio. Numerous trees were also snapped off or uprooted in these areas. A tornado also occurred at about the same time in the southeast corner of Scipio Township.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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