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The Drake Home and the Underground Railroad Historical

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Here on February 16, 1851, Jonathan and Frances Drake participated in the rescue of the fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins. The case attracted national attention and the rebuke of President Millard Fillmore. Undeterred, abolitionists like the Drakes …

Birthplace of Johnny Appleseed

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Near this site was bornJohn Chapmanknown asJohnny AppleseedSept. 26, 1774?—?Mar. 18, 1845

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