1 10 24 https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/43c62f60457b5e52f7cb3fb2ef506304.jpg 5e5c8be4d18e8f3e63f44c9e96a3178d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Knox College heritage exhibition label Subject The topic of the resource George Washington Gale, City of Galesburg Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document <h3><strong>Committed to Equality<br />George Washington Gale, a Presbyterian minister from New York State, founded Knox College to educate young men to preach the Gospel. The college was among the first institutions in the United States open to all men and women regardless of their racial background. Knox's founders hoped to make education accessible to students of even the most limited financial means through manual labor and the sale of thousands of acres of land to new settlers.<br />Abolition City <br />The village and the college founded by George Washington Gale in the 1830s were home to uncompromising abolitionists and Underground Railroad activists who earned both the community and the college a notorious reputation. Gale and those who followed him established a town and a college that would support the Underground Railroad, welcome African American students, and established a legacy of activism on the Illinois prairie.</strong></h3> Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data <h3><strong>exhibition label</strong></h3> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Abolition City</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h3><strong>Underground Railroad tourism</strong></h3> Description An account of the resource <h3><strong>This nickname of Galesburg appears in a permanent exhibition of Knox College's founding and first decades in the era of the Civil War, in the Whitcomb Heritage Center, third floor of Knox College's Alumni Hall. </strong></h3> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h3><strong>Rhodesworks and Proto Productions</strong></h3> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h3><strong>Knox College</strong></h3> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h3><strong>2014</strong></h3> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h3><strong>Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College</strong></h3> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h3><strong>Knox College</strong></h3> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h3><strong>jpeg image</strong></h3> Language A language of the resource <h3><strong>English</strong></h3> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h3><strong>WIUGRR #20</strong></h3> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h3><strong>Illinois, United States</strong></h3> antislavery Galesburg George Washington Gale heritage tourism Illinois Knox College slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/a6af92a35f5c4b9e54e4b01ee0a9d720.png 10d1c7780854b4c2476d1d4eff3690f1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h3>A trap door</h3> Subject The topic of the resource <h2>The underground railroad in Macomb, IL</h2> Description An account of the resource <h4>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, <em>Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro</em> (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.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h3>Damon Tunnicliff</h3> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>"Macomb's Historic Homes," <em>Illinois Stories, </em>produced by <span>WSIU Public Broadcasting, aired December 19, 2011</span></h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>WSIU PUblic Broadcasting</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>Trap door probably built in the 1860s-1870s; video produced 2011</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Public Broadcasting Service</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>Still image</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR23</h4> antislavery heritage tourism Illinois Macomb slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/0cb5afcd66ebb5b937defb5300182a93.jpg 24e399bb571182a17f7325efbdba335d https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/269933f1337db37c35e41229726be1fb.jpg 4f9b32bea43b3866c7ab5d2d48cf655d https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/0710a5e08bf43327b289c2a6113dd6cd.jpg af73d829a92f59d835b9031ce88d7dfc Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h2>A railroad station mural</h2> Subject The topic of the resource <h2>The underground railroad in Macomb, IL</h2> Description An account of the resource <h3>This three-paneled mural is located in the Thomas C. Carper Amtrak train station in Macomb. Unveiled November 6, 2025, the mural is titled, "Freedom's Trail: The Underground Railroad in McDonough County." The artist Michael Mahoney created the mural. The mural centers the figures of African Americans fleeing slavery, suggesting their agency and various ways of flight (though, notwithstanding the mural's details and location, actually rarely along railroad tracks), both individually and, less often, as families. The fugitives in the mural do not depict any particular people, suggestive of the anonymous identities of most freedom-seekers - their intention and that of their conductors. The white figures in the murals are based on historic photographs of the Harmon Allison and James Blazer families, who hid and transported fugitives through McDonough County. The map shows the locations of the Allison farm in Chalmers township and the Blazer farm in Industry. </h3> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h3>Michael Mahoney</h3> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h3>November 6, 2025</h3> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h3>Macomb Area Convention and Visitors Bureau</h3> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h3>Still image</h3> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h3>WIUGRR24</h3> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h3>Illinois, United States</h3> antislavery heritage tourism Illinois Macomb slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/e7c98126efdf0bca365eed50f49f6b01.jpg c860c4f39e93fdf60c8460b9b5b79b64 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document For sale, a likely negro girl, 16 years of age For further particulars, enquire at this office. Kaskaskia Dec 12, 1826 21-8t Public notice. This day was committed to the custody of the sheriff of Randolph county, State of Illinois, a Runaway, a Negro Man who calls himself Martin Barker, about forty-three years of age about five feet nine inches high, a scar over his right eye, and also one on his right leg above his ankle, his make and appearance active; he states that he once belonged to Lewis Barker, of Pope county, near the Rock-in-Cave but that he is now free. If any person has any legal claim to him, they are requested to exhibit the same, and pay all charges according to law. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data digital image Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>"Negroes" for sale</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Opposition to the underground railroad</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Public notices of availability of two African Americans for purchase, a sixteen-year-old girl, and a forty-three-year-old man. Parallel to the Underground Railroad, there existed a "reverse underground railroad," which, as in this item, targeted African Americans in Kaskaskia, Illinois, and other places on the southern and western Illinois borders. State "black codes" required African Americans to provide proof they were not fugitives; those who could not could be sold into slavery.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>NPR Illinois</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>December 12, 1826</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>text</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #7</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <em>Illinois Reporter</em> newspaper antislavery Illinois Illinois Reporter newspaper Kaskaskia slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/5467e73c953f1cc3ea629e003b9f4952.png d19e9167b530e90cd007d728f9d76ddd Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The majority of McDonough County settlers were from the upland South, but others came as well, so there was intense political conflict before and during the Civil War. The Underground Railroad operated in McDonough County, but Lincoln also visited the town twice and spoke at the courthouse. Also, prominent businessman William H. Randolph, a Lincoln supporter who served as Deputy Provost Marshal, to enforce the draft, was murdered at Blandinsville in 1864—the most notable, and controversial, county murder of the century. However, about 2,800 men from the county served in the Civil War, and more than 600 were killed, so the town became noted for its huge Decoration Day commemorations after the war. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data text Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>City of Macomb website</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>The underground railroad in McDonough County</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Part of the "History and Culture" of Macomb, Illinois</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>City of Macomb, Illinois</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://cityofmacomb.com/history-and-culture/</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>City of Macomb, Illinois</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>Website developed in 2017</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>City of Macomb, Archives and Special Collections of Western Illinois University, and the McDonough County Historical Society</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>None asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #1</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> antislavery heritage tourism Illinois Macomb slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/8d789a08a2f342f839550e19e44533c9.jpg d1fa227fa7335d85f644181db2bce059 https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/83477b7163dff6c3964aa55faedb017c.jpg bd6a76555039f1083d0ab3a4d48ee78f https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/c94a1a5f1038edf0cf08f84df2acad98.jpg 309570acaa599a1b4f7f6126b0d7290a https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/7809a03cb1bf1feede144a47a8685d32.jpg 65cc7a52911d18d35dd18006d98376ba Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document To the McDonough County Historical Society Ladies and Gentlemen: I HAVE been asked to write a historical account of the underground railway that was in existence in McDonough county before the Civil war, but it is impossible, after a lapse of more than sixty years, with no authentic records to draw from, to assemble anything like a chronological account of the events that transpired in those troubled times. As it is my aim to deal only with those events that I know to be true, I must therefore confine my account largely to episodes that came directly under my attention as a boy, and to incidents related to me by my father and mother, coupled with much valuable information secured from the children of Andrew and Harmon Allison, who like the Blazers were ardent abolitionists, and a part of the underground system. I trust that this account, which is as accurate and complete as it is in my power to give it at this late date, may assist you in gaining an idea of the strife and animosities that existed in the decade ending in 1860. It was preached that slavery was a divine institution and that the negro was nothing more than an animal; the fearless men who operated the underground system were criminals in the eyes of the law but they gained courage for their dangerous work in the firm belief that they were performing a duty in the eyes of God and that the black man was a human being with a soul. All underground railroads started on the line of some free state that bordered on a slave state. The road that extended through McDonough county started at Quincy, which was station No. 1, receiving negroes from across the Mississippi river in Missouri. Station No. 2 was down at Round Prairie in Hancock county, at the Pettyjohn or Burton home. Station No. 3, in McDonough county, was generally at the home of some one of the Blazers down on Camp Creek in Industry township, or at the home of Uncle Billy Allison, or one of his sons up on Troublesome Creek. Part of them lived in Chalmers and others in Scotland township. Station No. 4 was at the home of Henry Dobbins in Fulton county, from whence cargoes of negroes were dispatched to Galesburg, Princeton and on to Canada, the terminus of all underground railroads. It is interesting to recall that the Princeton station was in charge of the Lovejoy family, which played such an important part in the early abolition movement. Oratorical Genius No Match For Hatred Against Emancipation At the time when the quarrel between the abolitionists and adherents of slavery was becoming most bitter, proponents of emancipation engaged an orator to speak afternoon and night at Old Camp Creek church, then located about a mile and a half southeast of Ebenezer church and a like distance southwest of the present Camp Creek church. Antagonists served notice that the speaker would not be permitted to talk, and when the afternoon meeting hour drew near there was an organized gang present bent on breaking up the meeting and probably doing violence to the orator. These men were armed and acting in a threatening manner. The atmosphere was tense with excitement. Bloodshed was feared. There were men and women present, who, while not in sympathy with any argument that could be delivered against slavery, were governed by cooler judgments, and they prevailed upon the gang not to start any trouble. “Let him speak; we’d like to hear what he has to say,” was the admonition that calmed the armed band. The address was an impassioned speech depicting the negro in chains, cowed to the dust under the whip of the master, sold and bartered like cattle and torn asunder mother from child, father from son—the negro, though black by no fault of his own, born in the image of his Creator and entitled to life, liberty and happiness no less than his white brother. The orator held his audience well, but only for the moment. Animosities were too bitter to be wiped out with a single flash of oratorical genius; hatred of the negro as a free and equal being was too deeply imbedded. When the address was finished and the more inflammable minds descended to the level of everyday thinking, these hatreds and animosities again came to the surface, and there was a general determination that the speaker had said enough for one day. A council of the abolitionists was held, and both men and women debated whether or not it would be advisable to permit the speaker to go through with his evening program. It was finally decided that in order to avoid probable bloodshed, the evening session should be called off. Men Carried Rifles When They Went to the Ballot Box In 1852 the abolitionists had a candidate for president in John P. Hale. The adherents of slavery declared there should not be an abolitionist vote cast in McDonough county. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data book Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Testimony of a conductor</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>The first pages of a transcript of a public lecture by David Blazer to the McDonough County (Illinois) Historical Society, 1922</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>David Blazer, of Aledo, Illinois, shared his memory and specific details of the underground railroad activities of his father, uncle, grandfather, and of another family, the Allisons, in McDonough County, Illinois before the Civil War.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>David Blazer</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4><em>History of the underground railroad of McDonough County, Illinois</em></h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Aledo, Il.:Times Record Company</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1922</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>public domain</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg image</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>text</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #11</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Library of Congress</h4> Allison family antislavery Blazer family David Blazer Illinois McDonough County Military Tract slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/6d2aff0ee5b838fc96127106f618d53f.jpg 88ccf9a8a9b491be7e3716a0d11deab8 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Text Any textual data included in the document Dr. Richard Eells built this home, now located within the Downtown Quincy Historic District, in 1835. Eells built only the front portion of the house as it stands today, four blocks from the Mississippi River. He lived here until his death in 1848. Quincy, Illinois, was the first Underground Railroad station across the border of Missouri—a slave state. An abolitionist, Eells was actively involved in the Underground Railroad. In 1842 he was caught helping an escaped slave, Charley, from Monticello, Missouri. Charley was brought to the Eells house by a freed black, Barryman Barnett, who had spotted Charley swimming across the Mississippi River. While transporting Charley to Quincy's Mission Institute, a safer hiding place, Eells came across a posse looking for Charley. Charley fled, on Eells's advice, and was later found and returned to Missiouri. Eells returned home where he was shortly arrested and charged with harboring and secreting a fugitive slave under the Illinois Criminal Code. Judge Stephen A. Douglas heard the case in April 1843, and fined Eells $400, which he appealed. Meanwhile, Eells became president of the Illinois Anti-Slavery Party in 1843 and was a candidate for the Liberty Party for the presidential election of 1844. He lost his appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, the process of which drained him financially and emotionally. Eells died on a river boat on the Ohio River while on a a trip east to rest. His estate appealed his case to United States Supreme Court, which also upheld the guilt verdict. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data website Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>A Quincy station</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Richard Eells House</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Dr. Richard Eells built this home, Quincy's oldest two-story building, now located within its Downtown  Historic District, in 1835, four blocks from the Mississippi River. Quincy, Illinois, was the first Underground Railroad station across the border of Missouri—a slave state. Popular information today credits Eells with helping several hundred enslaved people to freedom, surprising, given his prominence in Quincy, and, indeed, across the antislavery North.  Eells' most celebrated accomplice was a man named Charley, or Charlie, who escaped from a slave owner in Monticello, Missouri in 1842. Barryman Barnett, a free black man, spotted Charley swimming the Mississippi River and brought him to Eells. After attempting to transport Charley to Quincy's Mission Institute, Eells was arrested and charged with harboring a fugitive slave under the Illinois Criminal Code. Judge Stephen A. Douglas heard the case in 1843, and fined Eells $400. Eells appealed the case, but the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction. Meanwhile, Eells became president of the Illinois Anti-Slavery Party in 1843 and was a candidate for the Liberty Party for the presidential election of 1844.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Friends of the Dr. Richard Eells House</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4>https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/il3.htm</h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>U.S. National Park Service</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1835</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #5</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Illinois Quincy Richard Eells slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/cbb768985e02d7461849c7a08931c8e4.jpg 10c83e8c0f0223d57456deb2a886412a Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data <h4>Stone and metal monument</h4> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h3>Beecher Chapel marker</h3> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground Railroad tourism and heritage</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>Presbyterian and Congregational settlers in Galesburg formed the town's Old First Church in 1837. By the 1850s, their unity fractured over Congregationalists' opposition to some southern Presbyterians' support of slavery. In 1858 Congregationalists separated to establish the First Congregational Church, calling Edward Beecher, former president of Illinois College and co-founder of Illinois' first antislavery society, to return to the state from Boston, Massachusetts. The First Congregational Church, on South Broad Street, was across the street and south of the Old First Church. The belfry of the Old First Church was known as a hiding place for fugitive slaves. The Old First Church was razed in 1895, the same year that Knox College acquired the First Congregational Church and renamed it Beecher Chapel. The chapel itself was razed in 1966.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Galesburg Pilot Club</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>Marker erected 1987</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #20</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> antislavery Congregationalists Edward Beecher Galesburg Illinois slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/d51c548cb30666911e5a761ae8e01974.jpg d9238abedaf45eb7d14b9cb7e288bf90 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photo Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Illinois early proslavery counties</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Opposition to the underground railroad</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>A map of Illinois free and slave counties in 1824 showing shaded counties that were favorable to legalizing slavery in Illinois</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>George Smith</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4><em>A history of southern Illinois : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests</em></h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co.</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>1912</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>none asserted</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #8</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <h4>Wikipedia</h4> antislavery black codes Illinois proslavery slavery Underground Railroad https://timroberts.org/wiugrr/files/original/6a24f3a165640ff77eb2e025be2ea8bd.jpg 06aa79bfc76eac31cf73737cdb80b70b Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data photograph Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <h4>Spoon River Valley site</h4> Subject The topic of the resource <h4>Underground railroad tourism and heritage</h4> Description An account of the resource <h4>The road sign in this image was formerly posted in or near Bernadotte, Fulton County. It directed tourists to visit the site of the home of Francis Overton, and his daughter, Harriet Overton, both WIUGRR operators. Francis built a cabin near Bernadotte in 1835, where he harbored fugitive slaves and from which he accompanied them along a ravine to another safe space, the Stone Castle. Reflecting both local sentiment, and the fact that some operators' illicit complicity with fugitive slaves was an open secret, an anti-black mob attacked Francis one day in town. Harriet mounted a horse, and, armed with a lead bar, charged the mob, obtaining her father's release.</h4> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <h4>Glennette Tilley Turner</h4> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <h4><em>Underground Railroad in Illinois</em></h4> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available <h4>Newman Educational Publishing</h4> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource <h4>2001</h4> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <h4>Glennette Tilley Turner</h4> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource <h4>jpeg photograph</h4> Type The nature or genre of the resource <h4>image</h4> Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant <h4>Illinois, United States</h4> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <h4>WIUGRR #17</h4> Language A language of the resource <h4>English</h4> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource <div class="YoJUFe"> <div class="JbD68d"> <h4 class="zNLTKd">Illinois Department of Local Government Affairs Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, <em>Intergovernmental Cooperation in Illinois</em>, 1976</h4> </div> </div> antislavery Bernadotte Francis Overton Harriet Overton Illinois slavery Underground Railroad