Stowe Home

Well it was suppose to be open for tours.  A couple from Alabama, two ladies from Dayton, Ohio and Lee and I were waiting for the Docent but she never came.

In 1832, 21-year old Harriet Beecher,  moved with her family from Litchfield, Connecticut to Ohio. 

Nati City was then an area active in the abolitionist movement.  It was also one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation at the time.

See me, Sweet William The Scot, sitting on the porch where Harriet Beecher Stowe walked.

It was in Cincinnati that Harriet Beecher began her writing career.

She published her book The Mayflower while living in Nati.

It was also while living in Cincinnati that Stowe traveled to Maysville, Kentucky in 1833 and witnessed a slave auction.

The distress Beecher felt was one of several experiences that inspired her book Uncle Tom's Cabin years later.

Maysville, Kentucky is hometown to Nick Clooney, George Clooney's father. 

(Lee worked in downtown Cincinnati for years and would see and talk to Nick Clooney who is an American journalist, anchorman, and television host).

Harriet lived here for various periods of time from 1833 until her marriage to professor Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. Her first two children, twins Eliza and Harriet, were born in the house in 1836.

Harriet's brother, Henry Beecher, also resided in the Cincinnati Beecher House.  Rev. Henry Beecher was an early leader in the women's suffrage movement and popular Protestant minister.

 The 5,000 square foot house was completed in 1833 and was constructed specifically to house the president of the Lane Seminary.

The house was provided by the seminary to the Beechers. Harriet and most of her brothers and sisters (11 Beecher children lived to adulthood) lived with their father in this house.

The Beecher Family in moving to Nati City along the way traveled through other eastern cities to raise money for the seminary. 

Lane Theological Seminary was considered the forward outpost of the Presbyterian Church in the western territories of the United States.

Harriet's father was the first President of the Seminary in 1832.

The last remnants of the Cincinnati campus were destroyed in 1956. So other than the Historical Marker sitting on the site there is no evidence of it ever having been here.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

See my large red peony well it stinks BAD!!!!

Lee has to grow the only peony that STINKS!

P. lactiflora cultivar, introduced from Japan, 1893; Japanese form, red, late midseason, approx. 40 - 43" (100 - 110 cm) tall, very floriferous, unpleasant fragrance

Variety was introduced to the U.S.A. by the Japanese exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.