The mansion is listed on the National Park Service "National Register of Historic Places" and the Ohio Underground Railroad Association's list of Underground Railroad sites.  We proudly display the "Friends of Freedom Society" marker flag in the window of the library.

A BRIEF HISTORY:

"Prospect Place" was the home of the George Willison Adams family of Dresden, Ohio, in the 19th & 20th centuries.  This structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently in the process of being restored.  In the 1850s and 1860s the house was a station on the "Underground Railroad".  Although a few fine homes remain in Dresden from this era, Prospect Place is the last remaining Dresden area mansion (There were five:  Prospect Place; River Dale; Mulberry Grove; Maple Hollow and Elm Grove), the others have met the fate of time and neglect and are no more.  These were the homes of the "Lords of the Valley", men of great influence and wealth who helped tame a new land and create a community.  We are restoring this home as a memorial to times gone by and to give the Dresden area back a piece of an ever-vanishing history. 

The house was purchased from the Longaberger Company of Newark, Ohio.  We would like to express our gratitude and thanks for all of their help in obtaining this property and especially to Tami and Rachel Longaberger, also Bob Ziegler and his assistant Joyce.  Special gratitude is expressed to the late Dave Longaberger who had a vision like ours for the house and who saved it by placing a new roof on the house in the late 1980s.

A period newspaper illustration of a fugitive being processed through an Underground Railroad "station".