Large Brick House

East Rushville, Ohio, Ohio
United States

This house is said to have belonged to a doctor during the antebellum period. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, the doctor helped many slaves escape to freedom. One slave, however, died on the way to Canada. It is said that this slave had wanted to earn money to go back and buy the freedom of his girlfriend-Nelly Gray. In response to the tragedy, the doctor�s son wrote the Civil War song, which became very popular in the North, “Darling Nelly Gray.” Since that time, the house h

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