Thomas Cully House

This “Dutch Colonial” house at 705 Deacon Street was built in the 1820s on a estate called “Cedar Hill.” The outside walls are a foot thick and were made of bricks drawn from claypits just south of the house’s location. The resulting “clay hole” played host to local children for ice skating and hockey games. Mr. Cully was an excellent businessman who owned a warehouse, slaughter house, tannery and a clay tile mill. Before the Civil War, the Cully's home served as a stop on the "Underground Railroad," where those fleeing slavery in the South could hide in the basement on their path north to Canada. In 1850, Mr. Cully, while on a business trip to New York, purchased a piano for his daughter. Its journey to Hebron is indicative of the role that transportation played in the history of village and the country—the piano went by boat on the Hudson River to Albany, N.Y where it was off loaded to a canal boat on the Erie. Arriving at Lake Erie, a sailing vessel took it to Cleveland, where it was once again transferred to a second canal boat, this time on the “Erie & Ohio Canal” and arrived safely in Hebron. The house is currently owned by Karen Bailey.