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operate over a four week period. .No. 2■Continued FromPace One «on the island run, the Arrow, were docking at vvliat today are the Cedar Point docks.The Post dpck” is rich in interesting history ip connection with the civil war when the Federal government maintained its prison for captured Confederate- officers on Johnson’s island, dnd the years preceding and following.,, .4-t- is snid that it“Post dock’’ that George and'Eliza Harris and little son, Harry, characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous “Uncle Tom’s, Cabin”' who really lived, boarded the steamer that took them to Malden, Ont., and freedom, after they had fled .masters in the south who ’ had sold them into servitude to different slave-owners.It is also bn this old dock that the '‘Lawyer Marks, of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” should have stood with “the papers” and a sheriff’s deputy, ■ ready to effect -a capture, while Harris, disguised as a wom-man, Eliza, in the rough attire of a Canadian field-worker and Harry,v dressed in girl's instead of boy's clothing* passed by and walked the gang-plank in the company of a kind-hearted Canadian woman who ‘ had volunteered to aid them after hearing of how Eliza and her child had fled pursuers led by the-bloodhounds over the floating ice that -choked the, Ohio river between the Kentucky and Ohio shores.. As the property of The Sandusky Island Steamboat 'Co.,, it is understood that the docks will be improved from time to time in various ways.
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Sandusky Star Journal
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Tue, Jul 02, 1929
Page 3
Full Page
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Sandusky P.
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