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Underground Railroad, 1995 Broadway Street Stockport - The main route of the Underground Railroad through Morgan County followed the old Lancaster Road through Chesterhill, Pennsville, Rosseau, Morganville, and Deavertown. A swathe of land about twenty-five miles long and sixteen wide along the Muskingum River. One of the most interesting Underground Railroad conductors on the route was a man named Rial Cheadle. He was born in Stockport, was involved in stations in several places in Morgan County and worked with a Abolitionist society in Big Bottom. He was a carpenter, button maker, and later a teacher. Acting as a witless man and singing silly songs. Cheadle fooled slave catchers who thought him incapable of helping fugitives. Other people from Morgan County included members of the Quaker community at Chesterhill, William Cope at Pennsville, the Thomas Gray family, and Affadilla and Reuben Deaver at Deavertown. All were instrumental in doing everything possible to help former slaves to freedom.