Eileen Baker-Wall holds shoes that belonged to her great, great grandfather. Family stories tell of how he escaped enslavement in North Carolina sometime in the 1840s. A little over a decade ago, ...

On October 28, 1798, Levi Coffin,anti-slavery leader and reputed “conductor” of the Underground Railroad, was born in the Guilford County Quaker community of New Garden. He joined the Quakers of New ...

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 opponent ...

This is one in a series of essays leading up to the celebration of the Indiana Bicentennial in December 2016. The essays will focus on the top ideas and historical figures of Indiana. Once runaway ...

BRIANA: TONIGHT AS WE CONTINUE , TO CELBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH WE VISIT A LOCAL SITE CRITICAL TO THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. KENNY: THE SECRET NETWORK THAT HELPED SOME ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS GAIN ...

Before the Civil War, Indiana residents Levi and Catharine Coffin spent two decades working with the Underground Railroad, helping an estimated 2,000 people reach freedom. Historians now refer to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind. (Feb. 15, 2016) — A ...

A National Historic Landmark, the Coffin home, now a state historic site and named “one of the nation’s Top 25 Historical Sites” by the History Channel, was designed in 1839 to be a stop on the ...

FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind. (AP) - The all-volunteer Levi Coffin House Association took a leap of faith in 1998, purchasing what was then an apartment house just to the north of the Levi Coffin House State ...

For about 40 years, Fountain City sisters Saundra Jackson and Janice McGuire have dedicated themselves to the Levi Coffin House State Historic Site and the Levi Coffin House Association. Jackson and ...

Construction of the Levi Coffin House interpretive center began with dismantling the house next door. Disassembling that house, built in 1837, intrigued the construction crew and Coffin House devotees ...