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Walter Vond, the son of Parma's first African American family, served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad in the 1850s, helping fugitive slaves escape from the South to freedom in Canada by taking them in his boat from the lakeshore to ships bound for Canada.
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Parma, New York · United States
