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Today, only a few Underground Railroad sites in Indiana are open to the public, including the Catherine and Levi Coffin home (called the "Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad") in Wayne County and Eleutherian College in Jefferson County. Other sites have been identified with state historic markers, an ongoing effort.
Athens (/ ˈ eɪ θ ən z /) [4] is an unincorporated community hamlet in Henry Township, Fulton County, Indiana, originally called Hoover Station.A post office established as Grant, on December 20, 1875, was moved to Hoover Station in 1883; Hoover Station was a waystation for the Chicago and Atlantic Railway, where Jacob Hoover was the postmaster [5] and kept a general store with his brother. [6]
[1] [2] Rev. Josiah Henson, a former enslaved man who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad with his wife Nancy and their children, was a cofounder of the Dawn Settlement in 1841. Dawn Settlement was designed to be a community for black refugees, where children and adults could receive an education and develop skills so that they could prosper.
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 ...
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Bedford and Bloomfield Railroad, Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad: Bloomington Southern Railroad: IC: 1906 1946 Illinois Central Railroad: Bluffton, Kokomo and Southwestern Railroad: NKP: 1886 1886 Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad: Borinstein Railroad: BRRC 1985 early 1990s: N/A Buffalo and Mississippi Railroad: NYC: 1835 1837 ...
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