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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMQ_birch-lake-meeting-house_Vandalia-MI.html
Quakers from the mid-Atlantic region settled here during the 1830's. This is the site of the meeting house, built in 1856, which replaced a log cabin dating from 1837. The congregation contained many active Abolitionists, and this area soon became…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17ZC_the-underground-railroad_Vandalia-MI.html
Vandalia, prior to the Civil War, was the junction of two important "lines" of the "Underground Railroad." Slaves fleeing through Indiana and Illinois came to Cass County, where Quakers and others gave them shelter. Fugitives seeking a refuge in C…