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Enterprise file photo — Melissa Hale-Spencer

A gilded lone blossom, at lower right, unearthed in an archeological dig on Livingston Avenue in Arbor Hill led to this display at the Underground Railroad Education Center with a similar 19th-Century French vase. Mary Liz Stewart said items like the vase are significant because there is a common misconception that African Americans before the Civil War were either slaves or very poor. The center’s home in the brick rowhouse at 174 Livingston Ave. was once the home of abolitionists Stephen and Harriet Myers.