The Willard Carpenter House served as a station on the Underground Railroad, and this distinction has earned it a place on the National Register of Historic Places. The owner, Willard Carpenter, was a businessman and philanthropist from Vermont who showed his commitment to African Americans by welcoming runaway slaves into his home through a tunnel originating on the banks of the Ohio River as well insisting that the library he commissioned “be maintained for the free use of all persons who may desire to consult it.” The Willard Carpenter house is now the home of local affiliates WNIN (TV) and WNIN-FM.

405 Carpenter Street, Evansville, IN,

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