George Vashon Law Office - Northeast African American Historic Places Map (sitios de interés)
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Site #2 on Freedom Trail in Syracuse and Onondaga County
About: In 1851, George Vashon, first African American lawyer in New York State, classics scholar, and first African American professor at Howard University, had his offices here in the Dana Block, corner of Warren and Water Streets. Peter Lilly, European American blacksmith and tinsmith who took the shackles off Jerry Henry, also worked here in 1851.
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