Last month, January 2020, on MLK Day, we took a trip over to the Levi and Catharine Coffin State Historic Site in Fountain City, Indiana. Admission is normally $10/adult and $8/child, but on MLK day admission was free for everyone! Not that admission should stop you from visiting this historic site. It's a great look at how the underground railroad operated in the first half of the 19th century up to the end of the Civil War.
There's a small exhibit room upstairs with a ton of information on slavery and the underground railroad. We had a tough time explaining to are youngest daughter that the underground railroad was a movement to help slaves from the south reach freedom. It wasn't an actual underground railroad with train cars!
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| My picture of the Levi and Catharine Coffin House. |
In addition to the exhibit room, admission gets you a full tour of the actual house Levi and Catharine coffin lived in and used to help slaves reach their freedom. An excellent tour led by very knowledgeable staff. A visit here is an eye opener on the life slaves lived and the extraordinary steps they took to be free. This is a definite must visit for anyone with kids. We take freedom for granted, but there was no freedom slaves in the 19th century U.S.
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