Macera Family Home, 125 West Green St.

The Macera family purchased this home in the 1930's at the height of the Great Depression. The original was noted abolitionist and Quaker, Benjamin Halsey, who never turned away a runaway slave. As a result, today the home is said to provide a sense of security and safety to those who enter it.

**This tour is from the 2003 printed "The Southside's African-American Heritage Walking Tour" brochure prepared by the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership with research by Leslyn McBean & Ingrid Bauer; modified for PocketSights by The History Center in Tompkins County in 2022. Text is unchanged from the original printing.**