Vestal Coffin Commemoration Day Events
As part of the ongoing observance of the bicentennial of the UGRR in Guilford County, a day of commemoration for Vestal Coffin, the First “Conductor” on the Underground R.R. in Guilford County, will be held on October 10, Coffin’s birth and death date (1792-1826). Activity schedule (all free and open to the public): 9:30 a.m. “Origins of the Underground R.R.: African Americans, Native Americans, and Quakers,” Arwin Smallwood, Chair of the History and Political Science…