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school
the Reverend William King a
and
the 1859 there was
I magine you are according of to Federal and 15 former American creation of a brickyard a fire that put For further information on
separated from your Directory
Buxton. a dent into
family after being Heritage
in
Designations slaves who, with other occured
this subject you should
sold, you are beaten the Elgin Settlement at Underground Railroad Buxton saw many Buxton?s
read Elijah of Buxton by
every day and are forced Buxton, Ontario, the refugees and improvements in 1852 growth. Finally
Christopher Paul Curtis.
to do painstakingly hard Buxton Settlement abolitionists, bought a that included clearing in 1861 Raleigh
work for hours on end. survives today as a one 2.47105 acre piece of land land and establishing a was

Many people you of a kind cultural as a joint stock sawmill, according to established
worked with would landscape, that company. Settlers The Buxton National and still

commit suicide or run of cleared the land and Historic Site and stands today.

and would be killed. established farms Museum a general store Why Slaves

Back To The Beginning on 50- acre plots was established, 400 Came
which they settlers arrived, 350
But after the war of Pretend
purchased over acres of land were
1812 slaves in the south you are a slave
time. By 1859, the cleared, 3000 dollars
including you heard you have been
settlement reached were raised in a matter
stories about a country mistreated
its top population of of months, courts were and many difficulties
that welcomed runaway and beaten your entire
over 1,000 residents established, and a post you made it to Canada
slaves. This caused life so you?re on the
served by three office, hotel, and lumber and are directed to
many freedom seekers journey to Canada, but
integrated schools, company were Buxton. The people of
to take the treacherous fearful of slave catchers,
two hotels, a general established. From 1853 - Buxton welcomed you
journey to Canada. You worried about traveling
store, a post office, a 1856 Buxton grew and and you feel welcome
heard that many slaves through the wilderness
sawmill, a flourished until slave after being given the
on the journey died but with your family, and
brickyard, a grist catchers arrived in freedom to make your
that many made it as what would happen to
mill and a pearlash Chatham in 1857, but in own decisions, and
well. This is a map of the Buxton while it the slaves that
factory. according to Walls ?This
was an Underground Rail Road This map shows UGRR routes used by runaway stayed behind.
A Path To Freedom settlement. Buxton?s slaves including how slaves got to Buxton. Even though settlement was a place

Buxton?s Value Organization of hope for a better life,
continues to function as there were many
Buxton was a a community while Starting in 1848 - hardships ahead a common desire shared

significant underground preserving its historic 1851 people began work the thought of by Underground
railroad settlement a key past. It was founded in to organize and approve freedom pushed Railroad travelers in

part of this was the 1849 by Irish a settlement, create you on. After settlements throughout

geography of the area, Presbyterian Minister, rules and laws, organize months of travel Canada.?