Burned-Over District
The region of the route of the old Erie Canal is also known as:
North Star Country
Birthplace of the Women's Movement
America's Psychic Highway
Birthplace of American Democracy
Utopian Communities
For a listing of some of the special places in the Burned-Over District:
Free Thought Trail A listing for the secularly minded.
Mother Earth's Soul A listing for the spiritually motivated.
Here are some individual places beginning from the east:
Albany Area
Shaker Village , Watervliet; Burned-Over.
Abode of the Message, New Lebanon. A Sufi Retreat Center has surfaced where the Shaker Village once stood. Burned-OVer.
Central New York
Abolitionist Hall of Fame, Peterboro. North Star Country.
Oneida Community Mansion House, Oneida NY. Burned-Over, Utopian.
Spirit House, Georgetown. Burned Over, Psychic Highway.
Matilda Joslyn Gage Home, Fayetteville. Women's Movement.
Onondaga Lake, Syracuse. Birthplace of AMerican Democracy.
Buffalo
Lily Dale Assembly, Lily Dale. Psychic Highway.
