The George and Harriet Stevens, Roswell and George Valentine, Hiram and Celeste Walker, and Niles and Lydia Carpenter homes each shared secret ... freedom on the Underground Railroad.
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 slaves escaped from the South on a months-long slog through Illinois and on to ...
The Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum, or the Burkle Estate ... The 19th-century home is filled with secret passages and trap doors that were used by runaway slaves attempting to flee ...
The George and Harriet Stevens, Roswell and George Valentine, Hiram and Celeste Walker, and Niles and Lydia Carpenter homes each shared secret ... freedom on the Underground Railroad.