Editing Harriet Beecher Stowe (section)

===Landmarks===
Multiple landmarks are dedicated to the memory of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and are located in several states including Ohio, Florida, Maine and Connecticut. The locations of these landmarks represent various periods of her life such as her father's house where she grew up and where she wrote her most famous work.

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], is the former home of her father Lyman Beecher on the former campus of the Lane Seminary. Her father was a preacher who was greatly affected by the pro-slavery [[Cincinnati Riots of 1836]]. Harriet Beecher Stowe lived here until her marriage. It is open to the public and operated as a historical and cultural site, focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Lane Seminary and the Underground Railroad. The site also presents African-American history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/stowe/|title=Stowe House|work=ohiohistory.org|access-date=July 27, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070717120109/http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/stowe/|archive-date=July 17, 2007}}</ref>

In the 1870s and 1880s, Stowe and her family wintered in [[Mandarin, Florida|Mandarin]], Florida, now a neighborhood of modern consolidated [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], on the [[St. Johns River]]. Stowe wrote ''[[Palmetto Leaves]]'' while living in Mandarin, arguably an eloquent piece of promotional literature directed at Florida's potential Northern investors at the time.<ref>Thulesius, Olav. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe in Florida, 1867 to 1884'', Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co, 2001</ref> The book was published in 1873 and describes Northeast Florida and its residents. In 1874, Stowe was honored by the governor of Florida as one of several northerners who had helped Florida's growth after the war. In addition to her writings inspiring tourists and settlers to the area, she helped establish a church and a school, and she helped promote oranges as a major state crop through her own orchards.<ref>Koester, Nancy. ''Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life''. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014: 305. {{ISBN|978-0-8028-3304-4}}</ref> The school she helped establish in 1870 was an integrated school in Mandarin for children and adults. This predated the national movement toward integration by more than a half century. The marker commemorating the Stowe family is located across the street from the former site of their cottage. It is on the property of the Community Club, at the site of a church where Stowe's husband once served as a minister. The [[Church of Our Saviour (Jacksonville, Florida)|Church of our Saviour]] is an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] founded in 1880 by a group of people who had gathered for Bible readings with Professor Calvin E. Stowe and his famous wife. The house was constructed in 1883 which contained the ''Stowe Memorial stained glass window'', created by [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood|first=Wayne|title=Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage|year=1996|publisher=University Press of Florida|location=Gainesville, FL|isbn=978-0-8130-0953-7|page=284}}</ref>

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Maine)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Brunswick, Maine]], is where Stowe lived when she wrote ''Uncle Tom's Cabin.'' Her husband was teaching theology at nearby [[Bowdoin College]], and she regularly invited students from the college and friends to read and discuss the chapters before publication. Future [[American Civil War|Civil War]] general, and later Governor, [[Joshua Chamberlain]] was then a student at the college and later described the setting. "On these occasions," Chamberlain noted, "a chosen circle of friends, mostly young, were favored with the freedom of her house, the rallying point being, however, the reading before publication, of the successive chapters of her ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'', and the frank discussion of them."{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} In 2001, Bowdoin College purchased the house, together with a newer attached building, and was able to raise the substantial funds necessary to restore the house. It is now open to the public.

The [[Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Connecticut)|Harriet Beecher Stowe House]] in [[Hartford]], [[Connecticut]], is the house where Stowe lived for the last 23 years of her life. It was next door to the house of fellow author [[Mark Twain]]. In this {{convert|5000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} cottage-style house, there are many of Beecher Stowe's original items and items from the time period. In the research library, which is open to the public, there are numerous letters and documents from the Beecher family. The house is open to the public and offers house tours on the hour.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/visit/the-stowe-center/ |title = Hours & Admission|date = March 28, 2019}}</ref>

In 1833, during Stowe's time in [[Cincinnati]], the city was afflicted with a serious [[cholera]] epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit to [[Washington, Kentucky]], a major community of the era just south of [[Maysville, Kentucky|Maysville]]. She stayed with the Marshall Key family, one of whose daughters was a student at Lane Seminary. It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville. Scholars believe she was strongly moved by the experience. The Marshall Key home still stands in Washington. Key was a prominent Kentuckian; his visitors also included [[Henry Clay]] and [[Daniel Webster]].<ref>Calvert and Klee, ''Towns of Mason County [KY]'', {{LCCN|8662637}}{{dead link|date=June 2019}}, 1986, Maysville and Mason County Library, Historical, and Scientific Association.</ref>

The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at [[Dresden, Ontario]], which is 20 miles east of [[Algonac, Michigan]]. The community for freed slaves founded by the Rev. Josiah Henson and other abolitionists in the 1830s has been restored. There's also a museum. Henson and the Dawn Settlement provided Stowe with the inspiration for ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMWAP_THE_DAWN_SETTLEMENT_Dresden |title='The Dawn Settlement' – Dresden  |work=Ontario Provincial Plaques on Waymarking.com |access-date=June 14, 2012}}</ref>