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Open 1-5 PM
Tuesday - Sunday
May - September
Closed Mondays
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The Hitchcock House is a National Historic Landmark |
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This Week
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Today is February 9, 2010
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What's New
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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.
More Family History |
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Early Pioneer Women
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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.
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Quote from a former slave:
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"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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