Levi Coffin, one of the founders of the "railroad", was a Guilford County native.

For example, Levi Coffin started helping runaway slaves as a child in North Carolina.

Levi Coffin (October 28, 1798 - September 16, 1877) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, and businessman.

Levi Coffin made the Cincinnati area the center of his anti-slavery efforts in 1847.

Slaves from Madison and some from Cincinnati were moved north to Newport, where the primary organizers of the system lived for some time: Levi Coffin.

Levi Coffin was also an active abolitionist, helping thousands of escaped slaves migrate to Canada and opening a store for selling products made by former slaves.

Hoosiers like Levi Coffin came to play an important role in the Underground Railroad that helped many slaves escape from the South.

But others immigrated to Indiana such as Levi Coffin, a North Carolina Quaker who was an outspoken abolitionist.

In that state he became associated with Levi Coffin in the "underground railroad" and assisted fugitive slaves until the close of the war.

William Woodward built a home on the site in 1832, where Levi Coffin and his wife, Catharine, lived from 1856 to 1863.