This Secret Room Discovered by Homeowners Held a Historical Secret

It Was a Passage to Freedom

CBS Philly

The room was designed to hide those people who had fled from their owners. They would often stop in this region before making their way to Canada. In that moment, Poulos realized that the secret room underneath her home was part of the “Underground Railroad,” so she reached out to the local historical society and learned that Lansdowne was home to well-known abolitionists.

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