Photo from the Wittmond Hotel Facebook page

Wittmond Hotel was an Underground Railroad station

by

John J. Dunphy

Originally published in the 10/27/13 edition of The Telegraph of Alton, Illinois. The Wittmond Hotel is located in Brussels, IL.

John J. Dunphy is the author of Abolitionism and the Civil War in Southwestern Illinois, Lewis and Clark’s Illinois Volunteers, From Christmas to Twelfth Night in Southern Illinois, Murder and Mayhem in Southwestern Illinois and Unsung Heroes of the Dachau Trials. He is also the author of the following collections of poetry: Old Soldiers Fading Away, Zen Koanhead, pagan rites, Stellar Possibilities, Dark Nebulae, Bullet Cluster and Touching Each Tree.