John Parker House » Ripley, Ohio http://johnparkerhouse.org Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:34:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Cincinnati.com and the Enquirer feature John Parkerhttp://johnparkerhouse.org/2011/05/12/cincinnati-com-and-the-enquirer-feature-john-parker/ http://johnparkerhouse.org/2011/05/12/cincinnati-com-and-the-enquirer-feature-john-parker/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 15:10:58 +0000 JP Hist Society http://johnparkerhouse.org/?p=119

On April 11, the Cincinnati Enquirer featured an article entitled “Local Players in the Civil War”. The article mentions John Parker, saying:

John Parker

A former slave who purchased his own freedom, Parker

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On April 11, the Cincinnati Enquirer featured an article entitled “Local Players in the Civil War”. The article mentions John Parker, saying:

John Parker

A former slave who purchased his own freedom, Parker lived in Indiana and Cincinnati before moving to Ripley in Brown County, where he helped hundreds of slaves find freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War, he was an active recruiter for all-black regiments in the Union Army.

The article also features Ripley’s John Rankin. You can read it here:

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/ourhistory/2011/04/11/local-players-in-civil-war/

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29under600-1A Bike Trail That Traces the Way to Freedom

“AMID the farmland just north of the Ohio River, thickets of sumac and maple trees hem the edge of a one-lane road, just as they might have

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29under600-1A Bike Trail That Traces the Way to Freedom

“AMID the farmland just north of the Ohio River, thickets of sumac and maple trees hem the edge of a one-lane road, just as they might have lined the way to freedom two centuries ago…”
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