John Rankin House (Ripley, Ohio)

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John Rankin House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark


Nearest city	Ripley, Ohio
Coordinates	Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built	1828
NRHP Reference #	70000485^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 10, 1970^[1]
Designated NHL	February 18, 1997^[2]

The John Rankin House is a National Historic Landmark in Ripley, Ohio. Built about 1816, it was home to Presbyterian abolitionist John Rankin, and was one of the original stops on the Underground Railroad. Harriet Beecher Stowe's visit to Rankin provided some of the story that became Uncle Tom's Cabin.^[3]

The house was acquired by the State of Ohio in 1938 and is now operated by the Ohio Historical Society and opened for tours.^[4]

References

v t e Underground Railroad
People	William L. Chaplin Levi Coffin Richard Dillingham Calvin Fairbank Thomas Garrett Laura Smith Haviland Daniel Hughes William Cooper Nell Harriet Forten Purvis Robert Purvis John Rankin Hetty Reckless Gerrit Smith William Still Harriet Beecher Stowe Charles Turner Torrey Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Delia Webster
Places	List of Underground Railroad sites houses churches Levi Coffin House Bialystoker Synagogue Bilger's Rocks Wilson Bruce Evans House Cyrus Gates Farmstead Sites in Indiana Allen Chapel Town Clock Church F. Julius LeMoyne House National Underground Railroad Freedom Center John Rankin House Gerrit Smith Estate John Freeman Walls Historic Site
Events	Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Pearl incident Jerry Rescue Uncle Tom's Cabin Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Thirteenth Amendment
Topics	Songs of the Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad Records Abolitionism in the United States Abolitionism opponents of slavery African-American opponents publications Fugitive slaves Fugitive slave laws 1850 Quilts Slave catcher Roots of Resistance (1989 documentary) The Railroad to Freedom: A Story of the Civil War (book)
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles> See also: Slavery in the United States and Slavery in Canada

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