1241 Uncle Tom Lived Here

Category: Markers

Marker reads, Site of Riley family home place, owners of Josiah Henson, one of the characters on which Harriet Beecher Stowe based her 1852 novel Uncle Toms Cabin. Henson served as overseer of Amos Rileys farms, 1825-29. On learning owner planned to sell him down the river, he escaped to Canada, living there rest of life. Invited to visit Mrs. Stowe in Andover, Mass., 1849.