From the Democrat and Chronicle on Sunday October, 18th, 1936

“Of course, it would have been impossible for Douglas to harbor there all the fugitives who flocked to him. But scattered throughout the city were a score of other stations to absorb the overflow. Most convenient for that purpose were the homes of Asa Anthony at Post Avenue and Anthony Street, Daniel Anthony, Elisha DeGarmo and Amos S, Sampson, all in Brooks Avenue, and George Harvey Humphrey, 669 Genesee Street. Those, of course, were at the time farmhouses, with few other settlers in the locality. Brooks Avenue was then Rapids Street and Post Avenue was a cabbage patch on the Anthony farm.

Those five houses were accessible from the Douglas home by way of the Clarissa Street bridge. There were only four bridges in Rochester at the time. Clarissa built-in 1844: Court, built in 1826, Main in 1812, and Andrews in 1839. A bridge was built at Driving Park in 1856, but collapsed shortly thereafter and was not replaced until 1890. So whatever fugitives arrived at those stations, and many did must either have come by that route, or have traveled miles out of their way.

Asa Anthony’s farm has since been subdivided and converted into a thickly settled residential section. But the house still stands. Formerly situated on the farm a considerable distance from Genesee Street, it was approached by a lane lined on each side by cherry trees, whose fragrant blossoms in spring must have afforded a tonic perfume to the nostrils of the road-weary fugitive. When Post Avenue was cut through the rear of the house faced the street. Half of the building was torn down and rebuilt and the rear was converted to a front.

There in the cellar on the barn slaves were hidden until passage could be arranged for Canada….

Daniel Anthony’s farm was in Brooks Avenue near Thurston Road. He was the father of Susan B. Anthony and a distant relative of Asa. On his arrival in Rochester in 1845 he purchased a portion of the farm of Elisha DeGarmo. There he built a house and tried farming….Not only Daniel Anthony’s house, but that of the DeGarmo’s next door, as well as that of A. S. Sampson beyond were slave stations. All three houses have since been torn down.

Standing, however, is the house occupied at the time by George Harvey Humphrey at 669 Genesee Street at Elmdof Street. Son of Judge Harvey Humphrey. Rochester pioneer who came here in 1824, George became celebrated as a church Authority.”