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Underground Railway home photograph

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Caption reads: "Rumors persist in connecting this old mansion with tales of the Underground Railway. It is said that a secret tunnel which leads from beneath the house to the shore of Lake Erie was used before the Civil War to smuggle runaway slaves to boats bound for Canada."
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Ohio History Connection

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Keywords

  1. Ohio
  2. Ohio Underground Railroad Association
  3. Slave's Escape, Or, The Underground Railroad
  4. Slaver
  5. Underground Railroad

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