The Windham Historical Society gets frequent requests for information about the Underground Railroad, and although there is limited factual data on this subject, the house shown here was a place where runaway slaves did stop, probably on their way to Canada. This is one of the several homes built by the Pope family. They were Quakers and in a newspaper interview from the early part of the 1900s, one of the Pope women who lived in this house, told her recollections of hiding a runaway. The Quakers were against slavery. It’s interesting to note that there were actually many black men, women and children in Windham from the middle 1700s through the early 1800s. They came to this town along with some of the families who settled here and were referred to as servants. Several of the men obtained their freedom and fought in the Revolutionary War. (Photo and information from Windham Historical Society)