This attic room is something special. In addition to being one of the loveliest rooms in the Inn, it has been witness to the struggle for freedom.
My ancestor Jonas Mitchelson Nichols used the Inn as part of the Underground Railroad. He used this room to hide runaway slaves before and during the war. The black men and women who did work at the Inn, helped conceal Jonas' abolitionist sentiment by pretending to be slaves. Jonas would buy slaves at the auctions, and immediatly free them, and they kept his secret, thus saving Jonas' life and their own.
There are two rooms on the first floor I'd like to show you. The back staircase is on the other side of the hidden door in this false closet......come !
