Stop #8: Laura Knowles Washington's House
Channel: Sojourner Truth Memorial
Date: 2014-12-10

Laura Knowles Washington purchased this house, at Stop #8 of the African American Heritage Trail, in 1857. She made her living cleaning and collecting garbage, earning enough to endow a bed for African Americans at Cooley Dickinson Hospital. Read more at http://sojournertruthmemorial.org/laura-knowles-washington-8/