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Now privately owned, the house at 403 East Adams
Street once was home to former Sandusky Mayor and abolitionist Rush R. Sloane.
According to the book At Home in Early Sandusky, by
Helen Hansen, the house was built for Samuel W. Torrey about 1850. Rush Sloane
purchased it about 1854, and made additions to it. When the Sloane family lived
there, a fountain and statues decorated the lawn, and there was a terrace on
the east side of the house. It is believed that this home was once a “safe
house” on the Underground Railroad. From 1923 until 1949, the Sandusky Business
College operated at 403 West Adams Street.
For several years, this structure
served as a nursing home. To read more about the home at 403 East Adams, see
Article Number 14 in At Home in Early Sandusky.
1 comment:
It always amazes me how little Black Americans care for the sacrifices Whites made to free them. So many White men died to free slaves, yet, no word about it from Black America... I live in this wonderful country for 17 years and have yet to meet a Black man called Abraham! It's also very sad to see the Jokos when I drive around, painted white, when in fact they were black and a signal for the runway slaves that that was a safe house! Shame, shame, shame!
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