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This sandstone house built by Rev. Hitchcock was a stop on the Underground Rail Road

The Hitchcock House is a National Historic Landmark

 

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Today is February 9, 2010

     
 

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Sandstone house built in 1856 by Rev. George Hitchcock. The secret room in the basement was used to hide runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad.
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Early Pioneer Women

 
   Please join us for an informative program presented by Bev Larsen of Elk Horn, Iowa. Bev will entertain us by relating excerpts from early letters, diaries and journals which have been shared with her by descendents of the first women of Iowa. The program is based on the book The Brave Ones.. The program will be held in the Big Red Barn at the Hitchcock House on Sunday, June 13, 2010, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs for a great afternoon.  
 
 

Quote from a former slave:

 
  "I am happy to inform you that I am in Canada, in good health, and have been here several days . . . This country is not what it has been represented to me and others to be. In place of its being cold and barren, it has beautiful, comfortable climate and fertile soil.
. . . I subscribe myself one of the abused of America, but one of the justified and honored of Canada."

- Jackson WHITNEY, upon arrival in Sandwich (near Windsor, Ontario), in a letter to a friend in Kentucky (1859).
 

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