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This Michigan Village Was Called a “Hotbed of Abolitionism” Who woulda thought this little town in Cass County would be pinpointed and shouted out in the U.S. Senate? In Cass County, at the junction of State Street (M-60) and Water Street in Vandalia, is an Historical Marker, noting where two underground railroad lines met.  The Illinois line that came from St. Louis, and the Quaker line up from the Ohio River formed a junction here, combining into one that proceeded to Canada and freedom. Vandalia, not yet a town, was involved in the Kentucky Slave Raid in 1847. According to the

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