1909 Underground Railroad Stop Russiaville IN Postcard
1909 vintage postcard. North Union Street in Russiaville, a town in Honey Creek Township, Howard County, Indiana. Russiaville was laid out in 1845. It was a stop on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves in the antebellum years in nearby New London, then the site of the Quaker Friends Meeting serving the entire area.
A local legend tells that the stop included a tunnel under New London from a safe house to a cave in the hollow of Honey Creek, near the location of the Friends Meetinghouse.