A knowledgeable retired school teacher provided an excellent overview of the building and community.On the way out of town the drove past the other buildings and decided that we'd have to return another time. Visiting these places - virtually or in person - allows you to form your own connections to the story of the Underground Railroad in America.Nebraska's Winding Road to Statehood: In the Footsteps of Barbara Mayhew, a Female Settler performed by Sara Brandes Crook (Peru)David Ruggles Center for Early Florence History and UGRR StudiesDiscovering New Bedford's Underground Railroad HistoryForks of the Road Enslavement Market Terminus (Natchez)Old Courthouse/Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Farmington was an important stop along the Underground Railroad. Please enter your name.The E-mail message field is required. The area was first inhabited by Indians of the Potawatomi tribe. We spent a day and a half in Springfield exploring the local historical society and library resources. For every 100 females, there were 88.6 males. Several lakes developed in this area, but they were not destined to remain.

Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID-19) is available from the World Health Organization (Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Their home was a safe haven for escaped slaves who were traveling the Underground Railroad. Below is the Administration Building (below).We watched a short video at the Bishop Hill museum and enjoyed the paintings of Olof Krans, a well-known folk artist who lived in the colony. Their home was a safe haven for escaped slaves who were traveling the Underground Railroad. We stopped to check that we'd found the correct house and had a nice conversation with the current land owner, Dale Peterson. The city is named after Farmington, Connecticut.. Before and during the American Civil War, the city was also involved in the Underground Railroad and there are several remaining homes that were safehouses. In the early 1900s, many Italian immigrants settled in Farmington. Farmington, Illinois : Delores T. Saunders, Farmington, Illinois : Printed by The Farmington Shopper, [1982] 1982. copyright ©1982: Edition/Format: Print book: EnglishView all editions and formats: Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first. We arrived near the end of the day, so many of the buildings were closing. Our next stop was at the cemetery to visit the graves of the Wilsons (tall right) and Wickwires (left). Princeton. Description and photographs of the. This house was built near the site of the original log home constructed by Eli Wilson and his family when they arrived from New York in 1834. Down the road to the west we found the original James Wickwire home (below). Locations related to the Underground Railroad are part of the Network to Freedom program. One of the most famous is the Owen Lovejoy Homestead, a National Historic Landmark in Princeton.It’s named for the abolitionist preacher whose older brother, Elijah, was murdered in 1837 by a pro-slavery mob because of opinion pieces he published in the newspaper. The Grimes Homestead--Mountain Lakes 2.

I (Annette) have ancestors who lived in the Farmington, Illinois area west of Peoria and at Cambridge, north of Galesburg. The locations in this program include National Park units, as well as locations with a verifiable connection to the Underground Railroad. The beach ridge of four of these lakes can be seen as gently sloping elevations in the southeast portion of the Farmington area. Farmington was known as the “Grand Central Station.” This means that most routes in the Underground Railroad led up to Farmington. NEW JERSEY 1.

While the Wilson home has no visible sign of its past station service, the Wickwire home was built with hidden rooms and passageways behind the closets. These family members were abolitionists involved in the Underground Railroad movement during the early and mid 1800s. Jean . (The Illinois Anti-Slavery Society even held its first-anniversary meeting in Farmington.) His wife, Catherine joined efforts to raise money and get petitions signed to help the cause.

Many of Illinois’ Underground Railroad homes were owned by abolitionists and were located near rivers. We spent some time at the Farmington public library photocopying interesting local history materials. After arriving at the airport, we drove to Peoria and spent the night. See more » Fayette County, Pennsylvania. We were seeking additional information about these family members and their experiences. Please enter the subject. We thought it was interesting that the current owner's wife is a "Wickwire" which means that the house was still in the family.