Turning My House Into A Station......

[H2O Man]

42. Local history records

that the doctor that lived here was an abolitionists in his later years. A young man who worked at the cloth & carding factory at the waterfalls married the doctor's daughter. Both became school teachers, and started a "college" across the turnpike from the regular school. Then he became an attorney, and served in both the state & federal government, and was friends with Lincoln. I sometimes think about the conversations the doctor and the Senator/federal attorney must have had. I'll have to get up to the "pioneer" cemetery to tend to the doctor's grave again soon.

My place was not part of the Underground Railroad, but I know of a couple area houses that were. I liked an 1888 article on Dr. Knapp, that said he "was known for peddling blue pills and abolitionist papers."