Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe visited Unionville Tavern in the 1840s. While there she heard the story of a captured runaway slave, Milton Clarke. Many think he was the inspiration for the character George Harris in Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Image Courtesy of The Ohio Memory Project.
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