Levi Coffin House

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Photo by Rebecca James.

Date created: July 25, 2005
License: This photograph copyright ©2005. All Rights Reserved

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Reminiscences of Levi Coffin: The story of Jack Barnes: A chapter from the memoir of Levi Coffin, a Quaker abolitionist who was heavily involved in the Underground Railroad in the 19th century. (Page 13)

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Levi Coffin’s House, in Fountain City, Indiana, was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Levi Coffin was a prominent Quaker abolitionist who was born and raised in North Carolina and later moved to Indiana.

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