John P. Parker House

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John P. Parker House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Viewed from the northwest
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Location	Ripley, Ohio
Coordinates	38°45′0″N 83°50′57″W / 38.75000°N 83.84917°W / 38.75000; -83.84917Coordinates: 38°45′0″N 83°50′57″W / 38.75000°N 83.84917°W / 38.75000; -83.84917
Built	1850
NRHP Reference #	80002944 and 97000340
Added to NRHP	January 7, 1980^[1]
Designated NHL	February 18, 1997^[2]

The John P. Parker House is a National Historic Landmark in Ripley, Ohio. It was home to former slave and inventor John P. Parker from 1853 to his death in 1900, and was a stop on the Underground Railroad.^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980,^[1] and it was further designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997.^[2]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "John P. Parker House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
↑ "Aboard the Underground Railroad". John P. Parker House. National Park Service. 2008-06-16.

Underground Railroad

People	William L. Chaplin Levi Coffin Richard Dillingham Calvin Fairbank Thomas Garrett Laura Smith Haviland Daniel Hughes William Cooper Nell Harriet Forten Purvis Robert Purvis John Rankin Hetty Reckless Gerrit Smith William Still Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Turner Torrey Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Delia Webster

Places	List of Underground Railroad sites houses churches Levi Coffin House Bialystoker Synagogue Bilger's Rocks Wilson Bruce Evans House Cyrus Gates Farmstead Sites in Indiana Allen Chapel Town Clock Church F. Julius LeMoyne House John Rankin House Gerrit Smith Estate John Freeman Walls Historic Site

Events	Pearl incident (1848) Jerry Rescue (1851) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852 book) Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (1856 book) Oberlin–Wellington Rescue (1858) Thirteenth Amendment (1865)

Topics	Songs of the Underground Railroad Abolitionism in the United States Abolitionism opponents of slavery African-American opponents publications Fugitive slaves Fugitive slave laws 1850 Quilts Slave catcher The Underground Railroad Records (1872 book)

Related	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (1932 book) A Woman Called Moses (1978 miniseries) Roots of Resistance (1989 documentary) Freedom: The Underground Railroad (2013 board game) Underground (2016 TV series)

See also: Slavery in the United States and Slavery in Canada

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