This image shows a trap door inside a Macomb home built in 1854-1855 by George Parkinson, and subsequently owned by Damon Tunnicliff, a prominent Illinois lawyer who opposed slavery and whose daughter, Helen Tunnicliff Catterall, wrote a renowned, multi-volume, Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro (1926-1937). Local legend asserts the home was a UGRR stop on the basis of an underground tunnel, now closed, but which connected the house with a smaller cabin outside it, to which the trap door pictured leads.
