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In April 1858, citizens of Blairsville rescued a fugitive slave, Newman, from arrest by a U.S. marshal and Virginia slave hunters. Lewis Johnson, a local Black abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad, housed Newman. Indiana County was an important Underground Railroad stop.
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Blairsville, Pennsylvania · United States
