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Salvadoran Underground Railroad
The Wellington Avenue Church of Christ was part of the San...
The Crossing at Scioto County / The Underground Railroad
Historic Underground Railroad Site
The Crossing at S...
The Underground Railroad in Pike County
Historic Underground Railroad Site
An Elm Grove abol...
Humboldt Underground Railroad
On the East Bank [of the Neosho River], escaped sla...
The Underground Railroad in West Milton
Side A:
In the year 1798, several prospectors trav...
Underground Railroad Route
1830 - 1860
Verity Pkw. once Miami-Erie Canal
...
The Underground Railroad in Lincoln's Neighborhood
The Underground Railroad refers to the efforts of enslaved...
The Underground Railroad in Hancock County
Side A:
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 prompt...
Historic Underground Railroad
At this crossroads stood the home of the Edward Hesdra Fam...
The Underground Railroad
1850 - - 1865
In memory of Fulton County Citizens ...
Results for Underground Railroad
Salvadoran Underground Railroad
The Wellington Avenue Church of Christ was part of the Sanctuary Movement, an effort by religious institutions to help Salvadoran refugees who entered the U.S. illegally between the 1970s and early 1990s to escape Civil War.
Salvadorans ...
The Crossing at Scioto County / The Underground Railroad
Historic Underground Railroad Site
The Crossing at Scioto County (front)
The Ohio River was a formidable obstacle for escaping slaves. Many runaways from Kentucky were aided by James Poindexter, an African-American barber and local resident, who picked up fugitives in Kentucky and ...
The Underground Railroad in Pike County
Historic Underground Railroad Site
An Elm Grove abolitionist maintained a lonely Underground Railroad station where he provided safety for escaping enslaved persons. These fugitives were attempting to travel the unfriendly route from Houston Hollow in Scioto County to safe places in ...
Humboldt Underground Railroad
On the East Bank [of the Neosho River], escaped slaves traveled through caves and tunnels to secret Underground Railroad stations.
Marker is on 1st Street, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
The Underground Railroad in West Milton
Side A:
In the year 1798, several prospectors traveled north from their North Carolina homes in search of new lands for themselves and their friends. Four of these known Quaker prospectors were John Mast, Jr., Martin Davenport and David Hoover ...
Underground Railroad Route
1830 - 1860
Verity Pkw. once Miami-Erie Canal
an Underground Railroad route
1830 - 1860
Those traveling along Underground
Railroad found safe stations
in N. Main St. homes of
African-Americans
listed on other side
Rice • Hawkins • Colston
Burget • Miller • Hardy
Edwards • Nutter • Davis
Smith • Robison ...
The Underground Railroad in Lincoln's Neighborhood
The Underground Railroad refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage. Acts of self-emancipation made runaways "fugitives" according to the laws of the time. While most began and completed their journeys unassisted, each ...
The Underground Railroad in Hancock County
Side A:
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 prompted an expansion of the "Underground Railroad," and as the state spanning the shortest distance between the Ohio River and Canada, Ohio saw heavy traffic in escaping slaves in the decades before the ...
Historic Underground Railroad
At this crossroads stood the home of the Edward Hesdra Family. This home is believed to have been a link in the underground slave railway, c1855.
Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (New York Route 59) and South ...
The Underground Railroad
1850 - - 1865
In memory of Fulton County Citizens who harbored fugitive slaves on their way to freedom in Canada. In Indiana, the underground railroad began along the Ohio River in 1850. After the Fugitive Slave Law was passed ...