"The Underground Railroad.
The Madison Route--Prominent Abbettors of It"
Madison Courier 12 September 1888
The first known route established in Indiana was at Jeffersonville, early in the thirties. A negro preacher named Alexander White, who lived at Salem, Washington County, began to preach the doctrine of emancipation and colonization so strongly that the "unterrified" ordered not only him, but all negroes to leave Salem.