Insights Into History: Episode 11 ”The Peter Mott House” (AUDIO)

Sometimes the strongest pieces of history hide in plain sight. This episode explores the Peter Mott House in Lawnside, New Jersey — the oldest surviving home in the town and a documented stop on the Underground Railroad — and tells how a free Black family risked everything to help people flee slavery.

We place the house in its wider context: slavery in the North, the Quaker-founded Free Haven community, the rural routes to freedom, and the late-20th-century preservation fight that saved the building and turned it into a museum honoring quiet, courageous resistance.