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The Grange, founded after the Civil War in 1867, is the oldest American agricultural advocacy group with a national scope. [2] The Grange actively lobbied state legislatures and Congress for political goals, such as the Granger Laws to lower rates charged by railroads, and rural free mail delivery by the Post Office .
As he traveled throughout the country, Kelley built partnerships that developed into the seven original founders of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. On November 15, 1867, he laid the groundwork to build a new foundation for American agriculture through the organization of the Grange, of which he was the first secretary until he resigned in 1878.
The Grange, or Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (the latter official name of the national organization, while the former was the name of local chapters, including a supervisory National Grange at Washington), was a secret order founded in 1867 to advance the social needs and combat the economic backwardness of farm life. [1]
The National Grange later dignified her vital contributions to the formation of the Order by recognizing her as co-equal with the other seven founders, stating: Caroline Arabella Hall should have been named among the Founders because of her great influence on the fundamental structure of the Order.
The two became friends at once and Saunders was a Sunday guest at McDowell's home. There they discussed the new Grange movement and McDowell was greatly interested. The following winter he went to Washington and became associated with the other six founder of the Grange. The restored home of Francis M. McDowell in Wayne, NY. (2007)
The Oliver Kelley Farm is a farm museum in Elk River, Minnesota, United States.From 1850 to 1870 it was owned by Oliver Hudson Kelley, one of the founders of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the country's first national agrarian advocacy group.
In 1867, he and six colleagues founded the National Grange, an organization dedicated to promoting the economic and political well-being of agriculture and rural communities. Saunders authored the Grange's constitution and was elected its first Master, a position he held for six years.
Hamilton Grange's popularity increased significantly after the Broadway musical Hamilton opened in 2015, [251] [252] and many people who saw the musical went to the Grange afterward. [253] The house saw 35,000 visitors in 2015 and another 35,000 in the first five months of 2016, [ 251 ] with a record 85,603 in 2017.