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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 July 2, 2009

     
 

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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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New Event

 
   On June 21, 2009, the Hitchcock House Advisory Board will celebrate the 200th Birthday Annivarsary of our sixteenth president by hosting Mr. Lee Williams of Cumberland, Iowa. Mr. Williams does an excellent job of portraying Old Abe and telling the story of his life. Mr. Williams is a distinguished member of the Association of Lincoln Presenters (ALP). The event will be held at 2 p.m. in the Big Red Barn at the Hitchcock House. Please see June 21, 2009 on the calendar link for more informaiton  
 
 

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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