Howell’s Ferry Crossing
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September focuses on those who chose to refuse enslavement of people, either of themselves or of others. The National Park Service program, enacted by Congress in 1998, began listing documented sites, programs, and resources for those researching the Network to Freedom, also known as the Underground Railroad. “This program honors, preserves and promotes the history of…
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During the Civil War, after overhearing the area Confederates plotting, he risked his life to inform the Union soldiers at Fort Peruque of a plan to destroy the vital railroad bridge…
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The discovery that Archer Alexander had been the informant who had passed information to the Union Troops about the Confederate’s plans, sent the whole area around Dardenne Prairie into turmoil! While the trains were halted, and the bridge repaired, everyone from Flint Hill to Naylor’s Store to Cottleville was looking for Pitman’s enslaved man….
