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From: "Nancy Broermann" <>
Subject: RE: Houses used on the Underground RR.
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 00:53:47 -0000
In-Reply-To: <55.10f131f3.27b567b3@aol.com>



How interesting! I'll email my mother and ask her. My mom's cousin use to
own the Millcroft Inn in Milford. When their was a fire there, their kids
came and stayed with us. I was just a little kid then myself - probably
about 1958.
Nancy
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Our family tradition holds that the house where my great-grandmother was
born
(now known as the Mill Street Manor restaurant and formerly the Milcroft)
was
used on the Underground Railroad. I once asked the owner about it (when it
was the Milcroft) and she said they believed the story to be true...that the
basement had areas that appeared to be concrete over former tunnels. This
would make sense since those tunnels could have led out near the Little
Miami
River. (An obvious route for the escapees could have been to cross the Ohio
and follow the Little Miami to Milford.) This home was originally John
Kugler's. He married Rebecca West, he died, she remarried a Townsend. When
Rebecca died childless, the Kugler property became the subject of a lawsuit,
with the Wests winning in the end. Does anybody know any more about this
building and its history? Is there evidence other than oral tradition?
Thanks for any tips! Amy


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