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John Brown House
John Brown (1800--1859) occupied an upstairs bed...
F. Julius LeMoyne House
The LeMoyne House, a National Historic Landma...
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is one of...
John Rankin House
A National Historic Landmark, this was the home ...
John P. Parker House
John Parker (1827-1900), a former slave, lived i...
John Hossack House
The John Hossack House was built in 1854 for bus...
Owen Lovejoy House
Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864), an influential aboliti...
Jordan House
James Cunningham Jordan, one of Iowa’s most i...
John Brown Cabin
John Brown (1800--1859) came to Osawatomie fr...
Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail-Trail
Just west of bustling downtown Jacksonville, the Jacksonvi...
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John Brown House
John Brown (1800--1859) occupied an upstairs bedroom in this house in the summer of 1859, while he formulated his plan and secured weapons for his attack on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry on October 16, 1859. Because of ...
F. Julius LeMoyne House
The LeMoyne House, a National Historic Landmark, was built in 1812, and was a center of antislavery activity in southwestern Pennsylvania from the 1830s through the end of slavery. Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne (1798-1879), the son of a Parisian ...
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is one of the oldest and last remaining agricultural resources in one of Ohio’s earliest black settlements, Longtown (Greenville settlement). This farmstead was the home of James Clemens (1781-1870), who was the founding ...
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" ...
John Hossack House
The John Hossack House was built in 1854 for businessman John Hossack. A Scottish born immigrant, Hossack came to Ottawa from Chicago, where he had done contract work on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. In Ottawa, Hossack was engaged ...
Owen Lovejoy House
Owen Lovejoy (1811-1864), an influential abolitionist, lived in this house, a National Historic Landmark, which was used as a depot on the Underground Railroad. Born in Maine, Lovejoy moved to Princeton in 1838 where he was a minister for ...
Jordan House
James Cunningham Jordan, one of Iowa’s most influential early settlers built this house, probably in phases, between 1850 and 1870. Jordan was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 1813 to John and Agnes Cunningham Jordan. He began raising ...
John Brown Cabin
John Brown (1800--1859) came to Osawatomie from his farm in upstate New York in October 1855 after three of his sons, who had arrived earlier in the year, appealed to him for help against proslavery forces in the area. ...
Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail-Trail
Just west of bustling downtown Jacksonville, the Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail-Trail, one of north Florida's oldest, traverses a rural setting of hardwood uplands, wetlands and pine flatwoods. A dense tree canopy shelters much of the nearly 15-mile paved path, providing habitat for ...
