estimated to be nearly four hundred. The Federal census of 1920 indicated the Negro popula- tion to be 336. This influx of colored people was due to several causes, not the least being the fact that Columbia was once an important sta- tion on the "Underground Railroad." In 1816, Captain Izard Bacon. a

whole-souled, vigorous support to the abolition or anti-slavery movement. The Underground Railway. Incident to the Abolition movement in Lancaster county might be men- tioned the "Underground Railroad," an organization of which possibly there was more spontaneous action than sys- tematic arrangement

HISTORICAL NOTES TI S on. -the DISTAFF SIDE MARION WALLACE RENINGER HANNAH GIBBONS From the early 1800's up to the time of the Civil War, there existed an organization known as the Underground Railroad. The object of this group of brave and active men and women was to assist fugitive slaves on

The Underground Railroad, Within a few months I sat one day in the reception room of the principal of one of our Eastern Pennsylvania preparatory schools. On the walls hung two small pictures of Abraham Lincoln, of the sort so often seen, with a quotation from his speeches or letters printed beside