Bucks County’s stops on the Railroad played an important part in the runaway slaves’ journey northward to freedom, said ...
Ithaca’s St. James AME Zion Church, constructed between 1833 and 1836, served a crucial role in the Underground Railroad. As the city’s primary station, the church hosted abolitionist leaders Harriet ...
Chautauqua County women Carolyn Loguen (1817-1867) and Mary Ann Brown (1814-1842) were active in New York state’s ...
The structure predates both the city of Mitchellville and the Civil War and was built by the town’s founder, Thomas Mitchell.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force on Tuesday presented its ongoing findings on the important role Illinois played in the history of helping slaves reach freedom. The ...
Kennett Square heralds itself as the mushroom capital of the world, but what many people may not know is that it was a crucial stop on the Underground Railroad. Crystal Crampton, president of the ...
A National Park Service web page on the Underground Railroad was temporarily edited to remove references to abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman, with the exception of an image of a stamp with ...
The Midwest Underground Railroad Network is interested in the Van Oostenbrugge Homestead in South Holland, slated for demolition.
Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.
These inns feature traces of the routes of runaway slaves. Slaves would hide on the third floor of the Fairfield Inn after crawling through openings and trap doors. — -- Just in time for Black ...
B Street Theatre will present Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, a Family Series production that dramatizes the ...