A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“The John Brown Farm State Historic Site includes the home and final resting place of abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859). It is located on John Brown Road in the town of North Elba, 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Lake Placid, New York, where John Brown moved in 1849 to teach farming to African Americans.”
Wikipedia article John Brown Farm State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1972 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.72000840- 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.
Then and now
1895 to 1999
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18951999
Fires near this property
66 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 66 fires within 5 miles of John Brown Farm and Gravesite
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 172 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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
Arson/incendiarism
13
Smoking
10
Recreation and ceremony
9
Debris and open burning
9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Natural
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
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
8 workings within 5 miles of John Brown Farm and Gravesite: 7 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Lake Placid, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning.
The reports record 13 injuries. 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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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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