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Underground Railroad: People of Miller Grove

The Miller Family The community of free African Americans in Pope County, Illinois came to be known as Miller Grove, presumably named for one of four families that settled the area. In 1844, the Miller family helped establish a small community of rural dispersed farmsteads. Harrison Miller - the founder and patriarch of the town - brought his wife Lucinda and their three children from a Tennessee plantation to the woodlands of Pope County. Although Harrison and his immediate family could not…

  • Managed by: USDA Forest Service
  • Coordinates: 37.499557, -88.6476902

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