This is the Levi Coffin house in Fountain City, Indiana a community located on State Route 27 north of Richmond. When the house was built in 1839 the town was named Newport. Coffin is often called the President of the Underground Railroad. One of the slaves who the Coffins hid in their house was "Eliza", whose story is told in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. http://www.waynet.org/levicoffin/default.htm
West of
Greenville, Ohio on
Stingley Road just over the Ohio-Indiana line is another building associated with regional
pre-Civil War Quaker and black histories. This old brick school building is all that remains of what was once a unique facility called the Union Literary Institute. Originally it had two stories and was one of three buildings which served as a manual Labor boarding school that educated hundreds of black students between the years 1845 to 1914. It’s hard to
imagine now but when first built the school’s location was surrounded by dense forest. It was established by Quakers to serve what was at the time a
community of free Negro families known as the “
Greenville Settlement” (aka
Tampico and later
Longtown). For more information about the
ULI visit: http://www.ulips.org/clemens.html.
This is the Levi Coffin house in Fountain City, Indiana a community located on State Route 27 north of Richmond. When the house was built in 1839 the town was named Newport. Coffin is often called the President of the Underground Railroad. One of the slaves who the Coffins hid in their house was "Eliza", whose story is told in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. http://www.waynet.org/levicoffin/default.htm
West of Greenville, Ohio on Stingley Road just over the Ohio-Indiana line is another building associated with regional pre-Civil War Quaker and black histories. This old brick school building is all that remains of what was once a unique facility called the Union Literary Institute. Originally it had two stories and was one of three buildings which served as a manual Labor boarding school that educated hundreds of black students between the years 1845 to 1914. It’s hard to imagine now but when first built the school’s location was surrounded by dense forest. It was established by Quakers to serve what was at the time a community of free Negro families known as the “Greenville Settlement” (aka Tampico and later Longtown). For more information about the ULI visit: http://www.ulips.org/clemens.html.
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