Conway House, also known as the Moncure Daniel Conway House, is a historic home located at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. It was the home of author, clergyman, and abolitionist

Moncure D. Conway Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 – November 15, 1907) was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer. At various times Methodist, Unitarian, and a Freethinker, he descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and ...

(1832-1907) and used as a Union hospital during the

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. an
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/ref> The home was built in 1807, and is a large two-story, five bay, "L"-shaped

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style brick dwelling. It has a full basement, side-gable slate roof, brick interior-end chimneys. It was listed on the

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in 2004. In 2005, the

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formally recognized the home as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Historical Site.Schools, Norman. ''Virginia Shade: An African American History of Falmouth, Virginia''. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse Inc., 2010: 275. It is located in the

Falmouth Historic District Falmouth Historic District is a national historic district located at Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia. The district includes 29 contributing buildings in the historic core of the town of Falmouth. Notable buildings include Basil Gordon Ware ...

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Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania Historical Markers: Moncure Daniel Conway N-36Conway House
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