When Mar and I had our Mini GPK/RGHS Reunion with Sharon Hawkins in her Yarmouthport restaurant, The Optimist Cafe, she explained to us that the house's owner before the Civil War had been a ship's captain, who assisted the Underground Railway.In the cellar of this home, he had built a sub-cellar to hide fleeing slaves from Southern owners coming north in attempts to capture them.
Above is the trap door in the restaurant's cellar basement and the brick-walled chamber they hid in.
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