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ittyvlt;wC*(This week let's go up the river toEagle Hollow which is about twomiles above Madison. It doesn’t looklike much today but it was theitJitldlt;scene of great activity during theperiod of the underground railwaywhich transported runaway slavesfcPtlaway from their bondage in theSouth to freedom in the North.The main figure was the Rev.Chapman Harris, a giant Negro withthe strength of a Samson and thecourage of a lion. He made himselfe:bTPv\a home in Eagle Hollow in a subdivision of that valley known astlCement Hollow, a place where cement was made long before his day.Here he began his cooperation withthe underground railway. He hunga huge steel bar from a tree nearthe entrance of the hollow.N11tllt;nWhen the road was clear for theCescaping slaves he would strike the1steel bar with a heavy sledge ham-odmer. The crash that followed couldI be heard for a great distance andwhen the proper strokes were giventhe slaves would start from theKentucky shore. 11Once when he was coming homeifrom Madison after dark he was *j waylaid at the entrance to EagleHollow by three Kentuckians who 1had come over to get him. A battle(ifollowed that was long remembered. IHarris with his herculean strengthawhipped all three; one fled and theiother two lay on the ground all but *dead when Harris moved on againtowards his home. But his troubleswere not over, for as he neared the • 1door of his dugout where he hadtwo or three slaves in hiding await- iing his return, three more men, this ttime armed with rifles, halted him.(i tForcing him ahead of them ^with their guns they made him un-t1lock the door of his home. As thedoor swung open Harris reached for ia club he had ready for just such anemergency. This was the last timeanyone tried to tackle him. He diedyears after the war quite popularamong the people of his race to theend.
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Hanover Triangle
Hanover, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 14, 1946
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