Newspaper article of Towanda Meadows - No Underground Story at Farm House
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This January 14, 2007 newspaper article from the Bloomington, Illinois Pantagraph describes Towanda Meadows' enduring urban legend of being a stop on the underground railroad. This mansion. the largest Italianate Farmhouse in McLean County. was built in the 1870's by livestock businessman William R. Duncan 10 years after the civil war. Duncan built his home just east of the Chicago and Alton Railroad Line, situated on the low hill near Towanda a...
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