David Cummins Octagon House
Appearance
David Cummins Octagon House | |
Location | 301 Liberty Street, Conneaut, Ohio |
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Coordinates | 41°56′28″N 80°33′26″W / 41.94111°N 80.55722°W |
Built | c. 1860 |
NRHP reference No. | 74001394 |
Added to NRHP | September 9, 1974[1] |
The David Cummins Octagon House is an historic octagon house located at 301 Liberty Street in Conneaut, Ohio. Built sometime in the 1860s, it is named for David Cummins, who founded the Cummins Canning Company in Conneaut. Because the house had a tunnel running from it to the nearby Conneaut Creek, it has been said that the house was a station on the Underground Railroad,[2] but this has been questioned and it has been suggested that the tunnel belonged instead to a previous house located on the property.[3]
On September 9, 1974, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Conneaut, Ohio -Clippings from the Sunday paper
- ^ "Abolition in Conneaut, Ohio" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2009-10-25.