Photo 2-GTA-32 from 1969

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This is the former John Randolph Scott farm, a way station on the Underground Railroad. Scott and George Kern from Metamora were indicted in 1847 on charges of harboring freedom seekers. Abraham Lincoln acted as their attorney and got the case dismissed.

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