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Subject: PML Search Result matching ("(calhoun or calhoon) andnot Co*")
or cahoon or colquhoun
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:16:19 -0700
From: JEFFREY SIGSWORTH <sigsworthj(a)usa.net>
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Source: OHLORAIN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [[OHLORAIN] Underground Railroad in Lorain Co.]
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I suppose the Oberlin College Archives, on the 4th or 5th floor of the
Mudd Learning Center (College Library), would be one of the best places
to find factual documentation of this interesting "human network." The
Oberlin Public Library's Ohio Room would be another likely source. In
fact, Oberlin has several historic sites or buildings, and a number of
gravestones in the local cemetery identified (and listed on an organized
tour) as being associated with the Underground Railroad.
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I've read that the PRIMARY route through Lorain County was along
modern-day State Route 58, through Wellington and Oberlin, then forking
off in several directions -- toward Sandusky, Vermilion, Black
River/Charleston (Lorain), Elyria and Ridgeville Twp. (now North
Ridgeville), and thence to Cleveland. The goal, of course, was the shore
of Lake Erie -- from which boats would take the escaped slaves to
Ontario, Canada.
....
There have long been rumors (not definitely confirmed) that several old
homes or other structures along Center Ridge Road in North Ridgeville
once served as "stations" on the Underground Railroad. The Samuel B.
Cahoon House (built ca. 1845), now owned by the Beckett Corporation, and
the Century Tavern (at the eastern end of town, built ca. 1825-30) are
among those said to be former Underground stations....