Mayhew Cabin
Located just outside of Nebraska City, Nebraska, is the Mayhew Cabin. Built in 1854, it was owned by Allen and Barbara (Kagi) Mayhew. John Henri Kagi, Barbara's brother, met and was deeply influenced by abolitionist John Brown in 1856. Kagi became the secretary of war in Brown’s army. Kagi made his sister’s farm a stop on the Underground Railroad to house slaves escaping from the South. In 2005 the Mayhew Cabin & Historic Village was rehabilitated. Today it houses the Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the first black churches established west of the Missouri River.
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