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Rush R. Sloane House
This house, built in the early 1850s, was the ho...
Wilson Bruce Evans House
A National Historic Landmark, this house was ...
Village of Mt. Pleasant Historic District
The historic village of Mount Pleasant was es...
John Rankin House
A National Historic Landmark, this was the home ...
John P. Parker House
John Parker (1827-1900), a former slave, lived i...
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Stowe witnessed the evils of slavery first-hand ...
Madison Historic District
The Georgetown neighborhood, located in Madis...
Eleutherian College Classroom and Chapel Building
A National Historic Landmark, Eleutherian Colleg...
Bethel AME Church, Indianapolis
The first AME church in Indianapolis, the Bethel...
Dr. Nathan Thomas House
The Dr. Nathan Thomas House, built in 1835, was ...
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Rush R. Sloane House
This house, built in the early 1850s, was the home of Rush R. Sloane (1828-1908), a Sandusky, Ohio, lawyer, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad participant. The son of a local jeweler who arrived in Ohio around 1815, Sloane started studying ...
Wilson Bruce Evans House
A National Historic Landmark, this house was the home of Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898), a leading black abolitionist and successful member of Oberlin's commercial and educational communities. Wilson Bruce Evans and his brother Henry Evans were participants in the ...
Village of Mt. Pleasant Historic District
The historic village of Mount Pleasant was established in 1803 by Robert Carothers, an Irishman from Virginia, and Jesse Thomas, a Quaker from North Carolina, and is important for the role it played in the antislavery movement and the ...
John Rankin House
A National Historic Landmark, this was the home of Presbyterian minister John Rankin who is reputed to have been one of Ohio's first and most active "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. In addition, he wrote Letters on American Slavery, ...
John P. Parker House
John Parker (1827-1900), a former slave, lived in this house, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark, from about 1853 until his death, and from this location planned many rescue attempts of slaves held captive in the "borderlands" ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Stowe witnessed the evils of slavery first-hand while touring the neighboring state of Kentucky and visited the home of abolitionist John Rankin in Ripley, Ohio. During her residency in Ohio, she interviewed several former slaves who had escaped to ...
Madison Historic District
The Georgetown neighborhood, located in Madison, Indiana, on the Ohio River, became home to African Americans as early as the 1820s. The unique feature about this neighborhood is that the homes, churches, and environment that the freedom seekers, conductors, ...
Eleutherian College Classroom and Chapel Building
A National Historic Landmark, Eleutherian College was constructed between 1854 and 1856, and was the first college in Indiana to admit students without regard to race or gender. Some of the college's trustees were among the most active participants ...
Bethel AME Church, Indianapolis
The first AME church in Indianapolis, the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church has played an important role in the city's black community for over 160 years. Originally founded in 1836 by William Paul Quinn and Augustus Turner, the church, ...
Dr. Nathan Thomas House
The Dr. Nathan Thomas House, built in 1835, was the home of one of Michigan's most active Underground Railroad participants, a founding member of the state's Republican Party and Kalamazoo County's first physician. Born in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a ...
