Lewis and Harriet Hayden House, Nov17 2010
Lewis Hayden was born a slave in Lexington, Ky. After escaping via the Underground Railroad, he and his wife Harriet settled in Boston, where he became a leader in the abolition movement. The Hayden house was a stop on the Boston's Underground Railroad and the Haydens fed, clothed, and sheltered two-thirds of the fugitive slaves passing through the city.