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The Crenshaw House (also known as the Crenshaw Mansion, Hickory Hill or, most commonly, The Old Slave House) is an historic former residence and alleged haunted house located in Equality Township, Gallatin County, Illinois. The house was constructed in the 1830s. [2] It was the main residence of John Crenshaw, his wife, and their five children.
Location of Gallatin County in Illinois. ... Crenshaw House: Crenshaw House: May 29, 1985 : Off Illinois Route 1 Equality: 3: Duffy site: Duffy site: August 26, 1977 ...
The Saline River of southeastern Illinois near the U.S. Salines, in Equality, Illinois, where leased out Kentucky slaves boiled down salt brine water from the river into usable salt for sale. 1970s photograph of the Old Slave House. John Crenshaw, a notorious illegal kidnapper slave trader, holding a crutch, for support because of a missing leg ...
Crenshaw House may refer to: Crenshaw-Burleigh House , Dermott, Arkansas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Chicot County Crenshaw House (Gallatin County, Illinois) , also known as the Old Slave House , listed on the NRHP in Gallatin County
Crenshaw was twice prosecuted for kidnapping, but never convicted. Due to Crenshaw's keeping slaves and kidnapping free blacks, who were then pressed into slavery, his house became popularly known as The Old Slave House and is alleged to be haunted. Stories of strange noises upstairs, coming from victims, date to 1851.
The Hickory Hill mansion, almost five miles west of Junction, is the 19th-century home of illegal slave trader and slave breeder John Hart Crenshaw.It was infamously known as the "Old Slave House," as it was used as a criminal front for the kidnapping of free blacks who were illegally sold into the Southern slave trade on the Reverse Underground Railroad, as well as a farm for slave breeding.
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