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Exploratory excavations at the home site of Abraham Lincoln's neighbor and Underground Railroad conductor Jameson Jenkins have uncovered a corner pier of Jenkins' house.
...Jameson Jenkins was one of 168 African-Americans recorded as living in Springfield at the time of the 1850 Census.
...On Jan. 17, 1850, he was involved in an incident that was described in newspapers as a "slave stampede." He is believed to have helped a group of runaway slaves from St. Louis escape the hands of slave catchers by taking them north to Bloomington.
