It is said that the old Seward kitchen was one of the most popular stations of the Underground Railroad, and that many a poor slave who fled by this route to Canada carried to his grave the remembrance of its warmth and cheer.
Portrait of Janet Seward
Oil portrait on canvas of Janet Watson Seward, wife of Wm. H. Seward II. Artist - George Clough, c. 1867. Mounted under oval gilt mat in rectangular gilt frame. Young woman with brown eyes and dark hair styled and pulled back has long dangling earrings. She is wearing a dark garment with lace collar and pink tied scarf at her neck. The background is a soilid dark green/slate/grey.
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