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Andover Homes:
Andover Homes involved with the Underground Railroad:
*William Jenkins – 8 Douglass St (formerly Jenkins Road)  
*William Jenkins – 8 Douglass St (formerly Jenkins Road)  
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**"The William Jenkins House,"  [http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=title&tp=title&t=townswoman%27s%20andover&ft=&l=1&d=0&f= ''The Townswoman's Andover''] by Bessie Goldsmith (974.45 Gol), p. 20
**"The William Jenkins House,"  [http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=title&tp=title&t=townswoman%27s%20andover&ft=&l=1&d=0&f= ''The Townswoman's Andover''] by Bessie Goldsmith (974.45 Gol), p. 20
**"Andover’s Home was but one Stop on the Underground Railroad," Andover Townsman 10/26/2000 (This article is found in the Andover Vertical File under Underground Railroad)
 
**[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=andover%20symbol%20of%20new%20england%20fuess&ft=&l=1&d=0&f=&av= “Andover:Symbol of New England”] by Claude Fuess, (974.45 Fuess), p. 314
**[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=andover%20symbol%20of%20new%20england%20fuess&ft=&l=1&d=0&f=&av= “Andover:Symbol of New England”] by Claude Fuess, (974.45 Fuess), p. 314
**"Jenkins House Station for Escaping Slaves," Andover Townsman, March 22, 1956 (This Article can be found in the Jenkins Family File)
**"Jenkins House Station for Escaping Slaves," Andover Townsman, March 22, 1956 (This Article can be found in the Jenkins Family File)
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See
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*"Antislavery Movement was Active in Andover," ''Andover Townsman'', June 20, 1996, p.20
* "Underground Railroad stopped here," ''Eagle Tribune'', February 20, 1998, p. 15.
* "Underground Railroad stopped here," ''Eagle Tribune'', February 20, 1998, p. 15.
*"Andover’s Home was but one Stop on the Underground Railroad," ''Andover Townsman'', October 26, 2000.
* "Historian: Not Everyone in Andover Backed Abolition of Slavery Before the Civil War", Townsman, July 17, 2003, p. 11, 12.
* "Historian: Not Everyone in Andover Backed Abolition of Slavery Before the Civil War", Townsman, July 17, 2003, p. 11, 12.
*[http://www.andoverhistorical.org/SMI-Files/SMI-Slavery.htm Slavery/Abolitionist Movement/Underground Railroad] by the Andover Historical Society
*[http://www.andoverhistorical.org/SMI-Files/SMI-Slavery.htm Slavery/Abolitionist Movement/Underground Railroad] by the Andover Historical Society
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=west%20of%20shawsheen&ft=&l=1&d=0&f=&av= West of Shawsheen] by Eleanor Campbell, Andover Room 974.45 Cam, Chapter III "A Time of Sorrow", pages 21 to 31   
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=west%20of%20shawsheen&ft=&l=1&d=0&f=&av= West of Shawsheen] by Eleanor Campbell, Andover Room 974.45 Cam, Chapter III "A Time of Sorrow", pages 21 to 31.  
*[http://www.nps.gov/sama/historyculture/upload/UGRRsm.pdf Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in the Essex Natural Heritage Area,] ,published by the National Parks Service
*[http://www.nps.gov/sama/historyculture/upload/UGRRsm.pdf Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in the Essex Natural Heritage Area,] ,published by the National Parks Service
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=658286&t=andover%20underground%20railroad&tp=keyword&l=5&d=0&hc=2&rt=keyword The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Underground Railroad in Andover & Greater Lawrence, Massaschusetts] the Greater Lawrence Underground Railroad Committee. Andover Room R 974.45 Gre (pamphlet box 6)
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=658286&t=andover%20underground%20railroad&tp=keyword&l=5&d=0&hc=2&rt=keyword The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Underground Railroad in Andover & Greater Lawrence, Massaschusetts] the Greater Lawrence Underground Railroad Committee. Andover Room R 974.45 Gre (pamphlet box 6)
*"Antislavery Movement was Active in Andover," Andover Townsman, June 20, 1996, p.20
 


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Revision as of 14:48, 28 July 2014

There were several stops on Underground Railroad in Andover.

A brief history of the Underground Railroad from The Underground Railroad in Massachusetts by William H. Seibert (1936):

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Andover Homes involved with the Underground Railroad:

  • William Jenkins – 8 Douglass St (formerly Jenkins Road)


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    • “Andover:Symbol of New England” by Claude Fuess, (974.45 Fuess), p. 314
    • "Jenkins House Station for Escaping Slaves," Andover Townsman, March 22, 1956 (This Article can be found in the Jenkins Family File)
  • Holt Cogswell House – 373 South Main St.
  • Mark Newman House – 210 Main St. on the Phillips Academy Campus
  • Stowe House – 80 Bartlett St.
  • William Poor and Sons Wagon Factory - 66 Poor St.
    • William Poor and his sons built carriages with false bottoms for transporting slaves to freedom.
  • Free Christian Church – 31 Elm St. This church was formed by John Smith and other Andover residents who did not think that other churches were making a strong stand against slavery.


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--Eleanor 16:06, January 16, 2008 (EST)
--Leslie 17:41, July 18, 2012 (EDT)

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