Underground Railroad

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):

...Underground Railroad by Seibert, p.1 of 3.... click to enlarge

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Andover Homes involved with the Underground Railroad:

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

...William Jenkins House.... click to enlarge

• Holt Cogswell House – 373 South Main Street
• Mark Newman House – 210 Main Street on the Phillips Academy Campus
• Stowe House – 80 Bartlett Street
• William Poor and Sons Wagon Factory - 66 Poor Street. William Poor and his sons built carriages with false bottoms for transporting slaves to freedom.
• Free Christian Church – 31 Elm Street. 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.

See

• "Jenkins House Station for Escaping Slaves," Andover Townsman, March 22, 1956.
• "Antislavery Movement was Active in Andover," Andover Townsman, June 20, 1996, p.20
• "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.

• “Andover:Symbol of New England” by Claude Fuess, (974.45 Fuess), p. 314.
• "The William Jenkins House," The Townswoman's Andover by Bessie Goldsmith (974.45 Gol), p. 20.
• West of Shawsheen by Eleanor Campbell, Andover Room 974.45 Cam, Chapter III "A Time of Sorrow", pages 21 to 31.
• Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in the Essex Natural Heritage Area, ,published by the National Parks Service.
• 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).

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