This is the location where the Slave Revolt was ended. The plantation was warned of the attack and the owner, Samuel Blunt, told his slaves that they should stay and defend the family and their plantation with the militia, or join the

The first established location on the journey to freedom through the Underground Railroad was founded here. The conductor who hosted this location went by the name of Richard Eells. He was a man of great passion for saving the lives of slaves in the United States: elected as president of the Addams County Anti-slavery Society in 1839 and 1843. On the way to north and east Chicago, then eventually Canada, his home was the beginning of a very long journey. The placement of this home was one of great convenience, but also great danger.