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There were several stops on Underground Railroad in Andover. <br><br>
May 6, 2021 marked the 375th anniversary of the Town of Andover's founding.


A brief history of the Underground Railroad from The Underground Railroad in Massachusetts by William H. Seibert (1936):
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Andover Homes involved with the Underground Railroad:
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*William Jenkins – 8 Douglass Street (formerly Jenkins Road)
*[[Media:AndoverTurns375.pdf|Andover Turns 375 Eagle Tribune May 9, 2021]]
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*[https://www.andovertownsman.com/news/andover-turns-375/article_b06cc734-bb5c-530e-8d8b-2647aa50799b.html Andover Turns 375, Andover Townsman May 7, 2021]
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*Holt Cogswell House – 373 South Main Street
*Mark Newman House – 210 Main Street on the Phillips Academy Campus
*Stowe House – 80 Bartlett Street
*William Poor and Sons Wagon Factory - 66 Poor Street.  William Poor and his sons built carriages with false bottoms for transporting slaves to freedom.
*Free Christian Church – 31 Elm Street. This church was formed by John Smith and other Andover residents who did not think that other churches were making a strong stand against slavery.
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*"Jenkins House Station for Escaping Slaves," ''Andover Townsman'', March 22, 1956.
*"Antislavery Movement was Active in Andover," ''Andover Townsman'', June 20, 1996, p.20
*"Underground Railroad stopped here," ''Eagle Tribune'', February 20, 1998, p. 15.
*"Andover’s Home was but one Stop on the Underground Railroad," ''Andover Townsman'', October 26, 2000.
*"Historian: Not Everyone in Andover Backed Abolition of Slavery Before the Civil War", Townsman, July 17, 2003, p. 11, 12.
 
 
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=andover%20symbol%20of%20new%20england%20fuess&ft=&l=1&d=0&f=&av= “Andover:Symbol of New England”] by Claude Fuess, (974.45 Fuess), p. 314.
*"The William Jenkins House,"  [http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=title&tp=title&t=townswoman%27s%20andover&ft=&l=1&d=0&f= ''The Townswoman's Andover''] by Bessie Goldsmith (974.45 Gol), p. 20.
*[http://www.andoverhistorical.org/SMI-Files/SMI-Slavery.htm Slavery/Abolitionist Movement/Underground Railroad] by the Andover Historical Society.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keyword&tp=keyword&t=west%20of%20shawsheen&ft=&l=1&d=0&f=&av= West of Shawsheen] by Eleanor Campbell, Andover Room 974.45 Cam, Chapter III "A Time of Sorrow", pages 21 to 31. 
*[http://www.nps.gov/sama/historyculture/upload/UGRRsm.pdf Abolitionists and the Underground Railroad in the Essex Natural Heritage Area,] ,published by the National Parks Service.
*[http://andover.mvlc.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rdetail.xml?r=658286&t=andover%20underground%20railroad&tp=keyword&l=5&d=0&hc=2&rt=keyword The Anti-Slavery Movement and the Underground Railroad in Andover & Greater Lawrence, Massaschusetts] the Greater Lawrence Underground Railroad Committee. Andover Room R 974.45 Gre (pamphlet box 6).
 
 
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--[[User:Eleanor|Eleanor]] 16:06, January 16, 2008 (EST)<br>
--[[User:Leslie|Leslie]] 17:41, July 18, 2012 (EDT)<br>
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May 6, 2021 marked the 375th anniversary of the Town of Andover's founding.


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