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- DesMoinesRegister.com | News
... 08/14/2002 the jordan house in west des moines has been named an official stop on the national underground railroad network to freedom. the designation recognizes the home of james c. jordan, a prominent iowa politician and abolitionist, and the important role the house played in helping ...
... torn down. the jordan house was a station on the underground railroad, a secret network that hid slaves fleeing the south and provided them safe haven and passage on their journey north. james jordan was born and raised in virginia and as a young man had pursued fugitive slaves. the task soon ...
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- DesMoinesRegister.com | Civil Rights
... network worked. jordan house in west des moines, a major stop was the jordan house, an 1850 victorian mansion that was home to james c. jordan and his family. jordan, a state senator and cattle farmer, was west des moines' first white settler. register files the jordan house is in west des ...
... major stop was the jordan house, an 1850 victorian mansion that was home to james c. jordan and his family. jordan, a state senator and cattle farmer, was west des moines' first white settler. register files the jordan house is in west des moines. as a "chief conductor" for the underground ...
... home to james c. jordan and his family. jordan, a state senator and cattle farmer, was west des moines' first white settler. register files the jordan house is in west des moines. as a "chief conductor" for the underground railroad in polk county, jordan made decisions on where the fugitives ...
... and his family. jordan, a state senator and cattle farmer, was west des moines' first white settler. register files the jordan house is in west des moines. as a "chief conductor" for the underground railroad in polk county, jordan made decisions on where the fugitives would stay and when they ...
... files the jordan house is in west des moines. as a "chief conductor" for the underground railroad in polk county, jordan made decisions on where the fugitives would stay and when they would travel. at his house, slaves stayed in hiding places in the basement before moving on. the militant ...
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- DesMoinesRegister.com | Civil Rights
... in southwest iowa; jordan house in west des moines; and lewelling house in henry county in southeast iowa. "i think the major stops, the identified leaders where it's well-documented, those are places to tell the story," morain said. "those could be places where you interpret the story, as long as ...
... completed in 1856. jordan house, west des moines : state sen. jimmy jordan came to iowa from virginia. grinnell : josiah bushnell grinnell, a minister from vermont, founded the city in 1854 and in 1859 was one of many iowans who gave abolitionist john brown a place to stay. among the stops on the ...
... around iowa - todd house in tabor and hitchcock house near lewis, both in southwest iowa; jordan house in west des moines; and lewelling house in henry county in southeast iowa. "i think the major stops, the identified leaders where it's well-documented, those are places to tell the story," morain ...
... and hitchcock house near lewis, both in southwest iowa; jordan house in west des moines; and lewelling house in henry county in southeast iowa. "i think the major stops, the identified leaders where it's well-documented, those are places to tell the story," morain said. "those could be places ...
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- DesMoinesRegister.com | Civil Rights
... history: iowa the jordan house , 2001 fuller road, west des moines; (515) 225-1286. admission: 50 cents children age18 and younger; $2 adults. lewelling quaker shrine , 401 s. main, salem; (800) 421-4282. open 1-4 p.m. sundays, may-june. no admission fee, though donations are accepted. todd house ...
... : iowa the jordan house , 2001 fuller road, west des moines; (515) 225-1286. admission: 50 cents children age18 and younger; $2 adults. lewelling quaker shrine , 401 s. main, salem; (800) 421-4282. open 1-4 p.m. sundays, may-june. no admission fee, though donations are accepted. todd house , on ...
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- DesMoinesRegister.com | Civil Rights
... , such as the jordan house in west des moines. there also is a consistent and coherent oral tradition that suggests iowa had an active fugitive transport system. for example, harmon cook, an eyewitness, recorded, "many times have i seen colored men and women crossing the prairie from middle ...
http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/civilrights/urheroes.html
- DesMoinesRegister.com | Civil Rights
... path to freedom jordan house recognized as slave refuge lunch counter protests in des moines activists keep alive memory of iowa's civil-rights pioneers marking a civil-rights victory edna griffin did the right thing civil-rights champion griffin dead at 90 borsellino: a comrade remembers ...
http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/civilrights/heritage.html
- DesMoinesRegister.com | Iowa's Roots
... sanctuary: the jordan house, 2001 fuller road, served as a des moines station on the underground railroad for slaves escaping the south. african-americans came to iowa to flee oppression africans didn't exactly scour the job market, consult cost-of-living indexes and check school test scores ...
... : the jordan house, 2001 fuller road, served as a des moines station on the underground railroad for slaves escaping the south. african-americans came to iowa to flee oppression africans didn't exactly scour the job market, consult cost-of-living indexes and check school test scores before ...
http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/immigration/africans_history.html
- DesMoinesRegister.com | People & Places
... Collector displays artifacts from Civil War at Jordan House....More than 100 visitors toured the historic Jordan House in West Des Moines on Sunday in celebration of Black History Month.
http://desmoinesregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/23676010.html
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