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The Reverend George B. Hitchcock House is a historic house museum in Cass County, Iowa, near the city of Lewis.Built in 1856 by the Congregationalist minister George B. Hitchcock, it has features indicative of its use as a "station" on the Underground Railway, corroborated by documentary evidence of Hitchcock's involvement in the shelter and transport of escaped slaves.
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It was among the destinations on last year's inaugural Iowa Underground Railroad Ride, a two-and-a-half day trip to Lewis from Tabor, another site of a surviving station in southwest Iowa.
The Jordan House is an historic building located in West Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was built by abolitionist James C. Jordan and was a station on the Underground Railroad in Iowa. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973. [1]
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They were agents of the Underground Railroad," said Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen. Ahead of the walk, WJZ's Janay Reece was invited inside for a first look at the artifacts church members have ...
Narrated by actor Clark Johnson, the four-part series profiles the history of the Underground Railroad, through which escaped African-American slaves from the Southern United States escaped to freedom in the northeastern U.S. or Canada, [2] focusing in part on the newest archaeological and scientific discoveries that have expanded the depth of ...
If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge ...