Poster displayed at the Lewelling House in Salem. *

This home-made dagger was left behind by a slave hiding under a corn shock on the Joel C. Garretson farm around 1848. *

Wheel taken from the Beehive in Salem. Used for raising and lowering false floors or ceilings for hiding runaway slaves. After the Beehive was razed, the wheel was relocated to the Lewelling Museum. *

The Lewelling House in the 1930's when owned by Herbert Garretson. *

Duvall and Mary Ann Garretson Henderson's hardware store in Salem. The Hendersons had false ceilings to hide runaway slaves.

The last photo of the Joseph Hoag house at about 1890 335th street. The house had a secret hiding place for slaves beneath the stairs. The house was torn down in the 1930's to make way for Howard and May Garretson's new home. *

One of the two trap doors in the Lewelling house to hide slaves. This is the trap door in the kithchen.

Lewelling House, Salem, Iowa - Ethel Van Hon Garretson commissioned this 1960's painting of what previously was called the Garretson house. Owned by the Garretson family for many years, upon becoming an Underground Railroad museum, it was renamed the Lewelling house, after the man who built it in the early 1840's and then left for Oregon in 1846. See the Garretson History Articles section for a brief history by Wm. W. Garretson. *

O.A. Garretson wrote the article "Travelling on the Underground Railroad in Iowa" published in the July 1924 issue of the Iowa Journal of History and Politics.