![]() Source: Dayton's African American Heritage, by Margaret E. Peters, a project of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center.ġ830s: Joe and Nettie Piner operate an Underground Railroad station in Dayton at 3525 Dandridge St. Source: 1827 - Black men working on the Miami-Erie Canal live in "Africa," a settlement along Seely's Basin near Canal Street in Dayton. Wheeler was a member of the American Sons of Protection, which was organized in 1849 to help black residents of Dayton who were denied city services paid for by tax dollars. Source: 1824 - Former slave Joseph Wheeler arrives in Dayton. Peters, a project of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center.ġ820 - Black barber John Crowder and partner Jacob Musgrave start Dayton's first regular stagecoach service from Cincinnati. Source: Dayton Daily News archives.ġ802 - The first black woman of record in Dayton is "a colored girl" Daniel Cooper brought to Dayton to be a servant to his family. The site is owned by the Springboro Historical Society, which has public gatherings there. ![]() But tucked away at the top of the wall at the northeast corner is an entrance into a crawl space where slaves were hidden as part of the Underground Railroad. ![]() Its cellar seemed to be a square room roughly matching the contours of the house above. ![]()
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