Afterward Coffin and his wife moved to Indiana and started businesses that allowed them to participate for approximately twenty years in the Underground Railroad. He opened a store in Newport and expanded his franchise to include cutting pork and manufacturing linseed oil. His entrepreneurial success created profits that allowed him to finance slave runaways and the network that assisted them.
In , Coffin moved to Cincinnati and opened a wholesale warehouse that handled cotton goods, sugar, and spices produced by free labor. Coffin was born on October 28, , in North Carolina. He was a member of the Society of Friends. Due to his religious beliefs, he became a strong opponent of African American slavery. By the time he turned fifteen, Coffin already had begun to assist fugitive slaves. In , he moved to Indiana and established a pork processing business.
In , Coffin moved to Cincinnati. With the aid of abolitionists in Indiana, he opened a business that sold only goods produced by free laborers.
He also became an active participant in the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War he visited numerous contraband camps and continued to aid slaves in their quest for freedom on the Underground Railroad. With the war over, slavery illegal, and passage of the 15th Amendment, granting African Americans the right to vote, Coffin retired from public life and wrote his memoirs.
Explore This Park. Levi Coffin. Try to lift a cotton bale, and learn about how slaves worked about one week to pick enough cotton for one bale. Enjoy a guided tour of the actual home where the Coffins housed so many freedom seekers. Escaping slaves were well hidden for their travels in wagons like this one, equipped with false-bottoms and used to transport freedom seekers to the next safe house.
Eileen Baker-Wall grew up in Fountain City and has been a longtime vol unteer at the site. The shoe she is holding belonged to her great-great grandfather William Bush. Our members help preserve and protect the valuable lessons that sites like this provide visitors from all over the world. What will you learn today? Due to COVID and social distancing requirements, we are offering special timed, indoor tours for a limited number of people daily, Wednesday through Sunday, starting at a. The Coffin house is not available for self-guided tours.
In , Fountain City received a designation on the National Register as a historic district. This community, which started in the early s, has a variety of buildings and homes that show a range of architectural styles. Enjoy a fun and engaging scavenger hunt as a family as you try and find and identify great historic features.
Families can enjoy this scavenger hunt starting in July Groups are asked to book a time and date for their tours in advance.
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