On 6th Street (Pennsylvania Route 954) near Philadelphia Street, on the left when traveling south.
In the years before the Civil War, Indiana County welcomed
people fleeing slavery and helped them get to freedom.
"The function of an ideal is not to be realized but,
like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point."
- Edward . . . — — Map (db m281731) HM
On Franklin Street (Pennsylvania Route 286) 0 miles east of 2nd Street ( Route 403), on the right when traveling east.
Outspoken opponent of slavery, Mitchell was widely known as an abolitionist. In September 1845, he harbored five fugitives from slavery on his property here. Following a raid by bounty hunters, two men escaped; three were returned to slavery. . . . — — Map (db m40569) HM
