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COWLES HOUSE, 27 Main St.
Horace and Mary Ann Cowles were Underground Railroad "station masters" who hid "passengers" here. Once, while they were hiding a fugitive in their house, they had to leave home unexpectedly. They put their little daughter Mary Ann in charge. All day long she sat on her doorstep and told visitors to "go away - my father will be home tonight". One visitor was a slave-hunter from the south, but thanks to Mary Ann Cowles, that hunter never found his prey.
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