Slaves, Salt, Sex & Mr. CrenshawThe Real Story of the Old Slave House and America's Last Station on the Reverse Underground R.R.
Gallatin County, Illinois, Slave & Emancipation Records, 1839-1849John W. Allen's 1950 transcription of the now-missing second slave registry.
Handbook of Old Gallatin County & Southeastern Illinois
The must-have book for any southeastern Illinois genealogist or researcher.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Aug. 1, 2004) — I met with two representatives of the National Park Service in May at the Springfield office of U.S. Rep. John Shimkus (19th-Illinois) whose district stretches far enough south to include the Old Slave House.
We covered a wide range of options for the site, but the first thing planned is to try to add it to NPS's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program. There's no money or federal control that is associated with it (at least not at this stage), but it's at least a step forward. Nomination papers had to be filed by mid July. They were mailed on July 14. The written part of the application can be found here on the IllinoisHistory.com site at the Old Slave House nomination page. Later this month the National Park Service will begin taking public comments on the proposal. As of August 1, they hadn't updated their page with the Old Slave House abstract yet.
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