Clemens Home

ID: 2600 ~ Source: Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites ~ Creator: Joanna Hahn ~ Date: 2020

This file appears in: The Greenville Settlement – Union Literary Institute and James Clemens Home

The 1822 James Clemens home is currently undergoing restoration work. The Clemens family was the first to call the Greenville Settlement home. The Union Literary Institute Preservation Society is working to try and restore the home.

This file appears in: The Greenville Settlement – Union Literary Institute and James Clemens Home

The Greenville Settlement – Union Literary Institute and James Clemens Home

By Joanna E. Hahn

Free Blacks and formerly enslaved Africans living in northern states like Indiana and Ohio were instrumental in providing support for freedom seekers along with white Americans. Though their history is not as well recorded, there are individuals and…