The Cotton Mill at Colebrook River
The Cotton Mill today
Chamberlain's Hotel / The Colebrook River Inn
The Colebrook River Inn "was
at one time used as a station in the Underground
Railroad."
(DeLarm 1979: 105)
"...Deacon Chamberlain ...and a strong antislavery man,
his Colebrook River home being a "station"
on the underground railway for fugitive slaves."
(Manchester 1935: 111)
Blueberry Hill Farm
GPS N 41-59-26 W 73-8-16
Between Norfolk and Colebrook, on Rock Hall Road.
Rt. 182
Supposedly there are false panels behind the
fireplace, concealing an entrance to another room.
Wyndecrest
"Rufus
Holmes, who lived at "Wyndecrest" (now the Howard Home on
Smith Hill}, was an ardent abolitionist and his house was a
station on the underground railroad." (Delarm 1979: 195)
"An ardent abolitionist and free soiler, his house was a
station on the "underground railroad, "where more than one
fugitive slave found
rest, and was sent on his way rejoicing."
(Manchester 1935: 119)
Davidson House
"The Davidson house on the Old Colebrook Road is also
said to have been an underground railroad station."
(DeLarm 1979: 195)
General Store
"My neighbor,...on Colebrook Road, (Rt, 183), has an
old general store on his property that was said to be a
station on the Underground Railroad."
(email correspondence)
House on Eno Hill, Colebrook River Road
(email correspondence)
"Beyond this point, there were stations to the north in
Colebrook and to the northwest in Norfolk. Who were the
Underground agents in Colebrook
remains unknown, but there were certainly several of
them. One may have been J. H. Rodgers, secretary of the
ninety-member antislavery society
in 1836." (Strother 1962: 126)
Antislavery Society
J. H. Rodgers, Secretary, June 1836, 90 members
(Strother 1962: 213)
Finery Forge - 1770 - Richard Smith,
Robertsville section of Colebrook
GPS N 41-58-30 / W 73-2-25