Fountain City, in Wayne County near the Ohio state line, is home to the Levi and Catharine Coffin House, a two-building historical and interpretive center that communicates, to visitors, the history ...
Levi Coffin had just moved to Newport, Indiana, an ideal location in which to help fugitive slaves. Despite being born and raised in the slave state of North Carolina, Coffin was an adamant ...
The Town Clock Church in Albany, IN was a key stop on the Underground Railroad. Visit this historic church to learn the story.
...Soon after we located at Newport, I found that we were on a line of the U.G.R.R. [Underground Railroad]. Fugitives often passed through that place, and generally stopped among the colored ...