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Archeological testing in the Jenkins Lot (Block 11, Lot 5) in 2015
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Jameson Jenkins was a drayman (teamster) living just 1/2 block south from the Lincoln family. He was listed as a mulatto originally from North Carolina in the census. During the 1850 slave riots in Springfield, he helped transport runaway slaves from Springfield to Bloomington, IL, about 60 miles away. The site is listed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.