Maria Adams (other)
Maria Adams may refer to: * Maria Hoadley Adams, wife of John Adams who owns John and Maria Adams House * Maria Adams, a woman kidnapped and sold into slavery by John Crenshaw See also *Marie Adams (other) *Mary Adams (other) Mary Adams may refer to: * Mary Adams (activist) (born 1938), American tax activist who led the repeal of Maine's statewide property tax and efforts to enact a Taxpayer Bill of Rights * Mary Adams (actress) (1910–1973), American actress * Mary Ad ...

John And Maria Adams House
The John and Maria Adams House is a historic structure near the city of Olmsted Falls, Ohio, United States. Built in the early nineteenth century, the house was expanded throughout the following several decades, and it has been named a historic site. Lemuel Hoadley of Waterbury, Connecticut brought his family to present-day Cuyahoga County in the 1810s; they were among the first settlers of Nelson Township, which took its present name of Olmsted Township in 1830. Another early resident, John Adams, married Maria Hoadley in 1820,Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 186. and the oldest part of the present house was built in the same year. Multiple additions were constructed later in the century while it was the home of Olmstead Falls postmaster Arthur P. Gray. Beginning in the 1930s and continuing into the 1970s, the house was the property of a family named TeGrotenhuis, whose ancestors were part of an old Ne ...
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John Crenshaw
John Hart Crenshaw (November 19, 1797 – December 4, 1871) was an American landowner, salt maker, kidnapper and slave trader, based out of Gallatin County, Illinois. He is also the great-great grandfather of killer and suspected serial killer Joe Ball, also known as "The Alligator Man". Slave trader Although Illinois was a free state, Crenshaw leased the salt works in nearby Equality, Illinois from the government, which permitted the use of slaves for the arduous labor of hauling and boiling brackish water to produce salt. Crenshaw was widely believed to be involved in the kidnapping and sale of free black citizens in free states as slaves in the south, an enormously profitable trade later known as the Reverse Underground Railroad. Crenshaw was twice prosecuted for kidnapping, but never convicted. Due to Crenshaw's keeping slaves and kidnapping free blacks, who were then pressed into slavery, his house became popularly known as The Old Slave House and is alleged to be hau ...
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Marie Adams (other)
Marie Adams (1925–1998), was an American singer. Marie Adams may also refer to: *Marie Adams, character in '' Howling IV: The Original Nightmare'' See also * Kelly-Marie Adams, ''River City'' character * Mary Adams (other) * Maria Adams (other) {{hndis, Adams, Marie ...
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