JCHP Project

St. Paul's Second Baptist Church
Rev. Chapman Harris
Research Project

Students from Hanover College are working together with Sue Livers and Elbert Hinds of the Jefferson County Historic Preservation Society to recover a bit of Madison's past. Their research focuses on two related subjects: the history of St. Paul's Second Baptist Church and the career of one of its pastors, Rev. Chapman Harris, conductor of the Underground Railraod at Eagle Hollow east of Madison. The project is scheduled for completion in May 1999.

Texts

"The Underground Railroad. The Madison Route--Prominent Abbettors of It,"
Madison Courier 12 September 1888

"Of the Underground Rail Road, Which Had a Line Through Jefferson County,"
Madison Courier 28 July 1899

Charles E. Heberhart, "They Say and Do in the Country"

Research in Progress

Key Names and Words

Members of the Project and Current Task

Michelle Gammon (866)7708
Current Task: newspapers 1859

gammon@hanover.edu

Alea Gold (866)7891
Current Task: newspapers 1858

goldal@hanover.edu

Sally Maschino (866)7946
Current Task: Coordinator and HTML work

maschino@hanover.edu

Sara Mosholder (866)7867
Current Task: newspapers 1857