The central Indiana residence was a key stop on the Underground Railroad, the storied network of secret routes and safe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FOUNTAIN CITY, IN — A closure of Fountain City's park and cemetery Sunday resulted in the cancelation of a previously scheduled ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The Levi Coffin house in Fountain City is known for being a stop along the underground railroad. Coffin and his wife Catharine worked alongside other whites, and some blacks to ...

The Levi & Catherine Coffin House in Fountain City, Ind., just north of Richmond on U.S. 27. Thousands of freedom seekers escaping enslavement in the South crossed through Cincinnati on their journey ...

FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind. — Shari Petersime needed a post-retirement activity. The year was 2014, and she’d just retired after 39 years teaching junior and senior high school special education students at ...

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, ...

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 ...

While researching a July trip to Indiana, we came across mention of an important safe house used by escaping African-American slaves in the mid-19th century. The 8-room Coffin house in Fountain City, ...

The house of the Underground Railroad “president,” Levi Coffin and his wife Catharine retell the painful history of those who endured slavery and the few who tried to help them escape to freedom. How ...

FOUNTAIN CITY, IN — A closure of Fountain City's park and cemetery Sunday resulted in the cancelation of a previously scheduled tour by officials of the Levi and Catharine Coffin House. A guided ...