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Side one:
Free blacks settled in Madison as early as 1820. The growing black community began businesses and organized churches and schools in this area, later called Georgetown. Risking their own freedom, some free black residents here actively aided slaves seeking freedom. A few of these residents had to flee from Madison themselves in the late 1840s. Side two:
Despite the danger, after the late 1840s some free blacks in Madison continued to aid freedom seekers. The Underground Railroad refers to a widespread network of diverse people in the nineteenth century who aided slaves escaping to freedom from the southern U.S.
Installed 2004 Indiana Historical Bureau, Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology, IDNR, African American Landmarks Committee of Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Inc., Eleutherian College, Historic Madison, Jefferson Co. Preservation Council, Cornerstone Society, Jefferson Co. Civil War Roundtable, and City of Madison; Georgetown part of Madison Historic District, 1973.
Jefferson St. & 5th St., Madison, Jefferson County Indiana
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