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Photographer: Joel Seewald
Taken: April 8, 2017
Caption: Lower Right Image
Additional Description: The Allen House Possible Station on the Underground Railroad According to his biography, Stephen Allen was a Madison Township antislavery activist in the 1840s and 1850s. From the 1840s sources we learn that Allen was one of the leaders of the antislavery movement in Lenawee. Traditional sources say his house was a station on the Underground Railroad. With the other evidence we have for his antislavery activity, it is easy to believe that he did, indeed, run a station. This is a 1970s photo of his house, which still stands on West Beecher a bit west of Adrian.
Submitted: May 4, 2017, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p381684
File Size: 3.973 Megabytes

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