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BETHEL - In 1991, bought a house on Taylor Avenue. As the ink dried on the purchase papers, he learned he'd also acquired a small, haunting piece of American history a stop on the Underground Railroad. "As we sat down at the closing,[url=http://duveticatrenchcoat.webmium.com/][b]デュベティカサイズ[/b][/url], the woman we bought the house from said,[url=http://duveticajacketswomenjp.albirank.net/][b]ダウンジャケットメンズ[/b][/url], 'Have you seen the slave hold?" Wild said.
Wild,[url=http://duveticajacketsjp.gengfl.com/][b]デュベティカダウンジャケット[/b][/url], Bethel's town historian and a history teacher at , was intrigued by what the woman told him. "She said to look under a couple of loose planks in the attic, near the central chimney,'' Wild said. "I was skeptical. But I went home immediately to look.''
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This is all circumstantial evidence. There's no document in the hold that says "A Slave was Here." But to some degree, that's the legacy of the Underground Railroad the semi-secret chain of safe houses used to move fugitive slaves across the North to safety in Canada. Because it was against the law to harbor escaping slaves, the railroad was largely a covert operation. No one talked about it.
There are some houses where a good historical record exists diaries,[url=http://duveticajacketsjp.albirank.net/][b]デュベチカ専売店[/b][/url],
memoirs or a history of anti-slave activity. The Freedom Trail, which commemorates historic sites that tell the story of African-Americans in Connecticut,[url=http://discount2013duveticajackets.webmium.com/][b]デュベチカ通販[/b][/url], lists 15 of these stations.
But there are many other houses where the record isn't so clear. Instead, their reputation as stations rests on hand-me-down retellings of 150-year-old stories, odd cupboards hidden behind a wall,[url=http://duveticajacketsjp.albirank.net/][b]デュベティカ激安[/b][/url], odd rectangular spaces in an attic. So Wild is left to piece together the history of as best he can. "I've had ,[url=http://duveticajacketsjp.albirank.net/][b]デュベティカ店舗[/b][/url], the state archaeologist come and look at what I've found,[url=http://duveticajacketsjp.albirank.net/][b]デュベティカレディースダウンジャケット[/b][/url],'' Wild said. "He said these things are tough to verify,[url=http://duveticajacketsmenonsalejp.halod.com/][b]ダウンジャケットduvetica[/b][/url], but that I had good pieces of the puzzle.''
What Wild knows is this: His house was built in 1799. In the 1850s, when activity on the Underground Railroad was at its peak, the house was owned by ,[url=http://duveticajacketsshopjp.gengfl.com/][b]デュベティカ激安[/b][/url], a single woman who may have fit the model of an Underground Railroad "conductor": a woman with religious convictions strong enough to place her home and herself in jeopardy by harboring slaves.
Wild also has found an article in that said slave holds places to hide the fugitives were often located near
the central chimney in an attic. That way, the heat from the chimney would keep the slaves warm and dry while they were hiding.
If Wild's home was a station on the Underground Railroad, it also fills in a gap of a sort on the Underground Railroad trail that leads up through western Connecticut. Although it's hard to prove, there are reputed stations on the railroad along the state's coast. The trail then turns north to Wilton and Georgetown. Then,[url=http://discount2013duveticajackets.webmium.com/][b]デュベティカ取扱店神戸[/b][/url], there's a space. No one knows of any documented safe houses on the railroad in Ridgefield, Danbury or Newtown. When the route resumes again, it's in Brookfield, Sherman and New Milford; having a
station in Bethel provides a useful midway stop.
Newtown Historian said there was no need to have a safe house in every neighborhood. The conductors would take the slaves either by walking or by horse cart 10 to 30 miles a night from place to place. The farther they could travel each night,[url=http://duveticatrenchcoat.webmium.com/][b]デュベティカ激安[/b][/url], the sooner the slaves could reach safety in Canada.
The trip did have its dangers, Cruson said. Northern Fairfield County was anything but a hotbed of abolitionism; in the 1830s,[url=http://duveticajacketsoutletjp.albirank.net/][b]デュベティカアウトレット[/b][/url], mobs stoned a church in Danbury and blew up one in Georgetown rather than let anti-slave preachers have their say. "The atmosphere was not particularly favorable to runaway slaves,'' he said.
Wild has turned up other bits of 19th century flotsam in his house old coins,[url=http://discount2013duveticajackets.webmium.com/][b]デュベティカ店舗[/b][/url], a linsey-woolsey blanket, a fragment of an 1807 newspaper that mentions and Napoleon. He also found two more pairs of shoes under the attic floorboards near the chimney. But these were not left behind by fugitive slaves. Wild thinks whoever built the house in 1799 may have left them there on purpose.
"It's called ritual concealment,'' Wild said. "It's an English custom that dates, oh God,[url=http://duveticajacketsjp.albirank.net/][b]デュベティカアウトレット[/b][/url], way back. The idea was if you left a pair of shoes near the chimney,[url=http://duveticajacketsjp.albirank.net/][b]デュベティカダウンジャケットメンズ[/b][/url], the evil spirits that started house fires would see the shoes. They'd think there was someone nearby and leave you alone.''
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