Earlier this year I shared a printable map of eight locations in downtown Rochester, NY that are notable in the history of the religion of Modern Spiritualism. While that map includes a lot of information, I want to walk all of that out a bit more in this blog post. [Download that map here]
Background
Spiritualists celebrate the founding of their religion on March 31, 1848. It was on this day that the two youngest Fox sisters, Maggie (Margaretta) and Katie (Catherine/Catie/Kate/Kathie/Cathie), first communicated with a disembodied spirit in their small family home in Hydesville (an area since incorporated into the city of Newark), NY.
The Fox Sisters did not invent the concept of Spiritualism, but they did popularize it in a way others had not. And, the reason for that dates to more than 20 years before those events would unfold in their humble home.
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