Lewelling Quaker Museum


Overview

The museum serves as a center for the understanding of Quaker foundations of life west of the Mississippi River, the abolition of slavery and the underground railroad and the origins of the Pacific fruit industry from Salem, Iowa and the Oregon Trail.  Foremost, its purpose is to convey to visitors a sense of the tragedy of slavery and of the origins of the racial injustice.  While this history is but a small window in time it serves as a critical remembrance of the courage of those enslaved who sought their freedom and the courage of everyday people who stood for what was right.

PHONE: (319) 258-2000