William Maxon’s Home Memorial
William Maxon’s Home Memorial is a memorial in Iowa Township, Cedar, Iowa. William Maxon’s Home Memorial is situated nearby to North Liberty Cemetery, as well as near the hamlet Springdale.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Springdale and Rochester.
Springdale
Hamlet
Photo: Billwhittaker, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Springdale is a small unincorporated community in Cedar County, Iowa, United States. Historically, the town was predominantly settled by Quakers, and was one of Iowa's most important stations on the Underground Railroad. Springdale is situated 2½ miles southwest of William Maxon’s Home Memorial.
Rochester
Hamlet
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rochester is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Rochester Township, Cedar County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 142. Rochester is situated 3½ miles east of William Maxon’s Home Memorial.
Buchanan
Hamlet
Buchanan is an unincorporated community in Cedar County, Iowa, United States. Buchanan is situated 6 miles north of William Maxon’s Home Memorial.
William Maxon’s Home Memorial
- Type: Memorial
- Inscription: “Here was the home of William Maxon, a station on the Underground Railroad, where John Brown of Ossawatomie recruited and trained 11 men for the attack on Harper’s Ferry. Let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free, with her...”
- Category: historic site
- Location: Iowa Township, Cedar, Iowa, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.68749° or 41° 41′ 15″ northLongitude
-91.22023° or 91° 13′ 13″ westInception
1924Operator
The Iowa Society;Daughters of the American RevolutionOpen location code
86HCMQPH+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 12705234037OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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