The list of
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
sites includes
abolitionist
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people.
The British ...
locations of sanctuary, support, and transport for former slaves in 19th century
North America
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before and during the
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
. It also includes sites closely associated with people who worked to achieve personal freedom for all Americans in the movement to end
slavery in the United States
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South. Sl ...
.
The list of validated or authenticated
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
and
Network to Freedom
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
sites is sorted within state or province, by location.
Canada
The
Act Against Slavery
The ''Act Against Slavery'' was an anti-slavery law passed on July 9, 1793, in the second legislative session of Upper Canada, the colonial division of British North America that would eventually become Ontario. It banned the importation of sla ...
of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free on arrival in
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the ...
. A network of routes led from the United States to Upper and
Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...
.
Ontario
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Amherstburg Freedom Museum
Amherstburg Freedom Museum, previously known as 'the North American Black Historical Museum', is located in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada. It is a community-based, non-profit museum that tells the story of African-Canadians' history and contributi ...
– Amherstburg.
The museum uses historical artifacts, Black heritage exhibits, and video presentations to share the story of how Africans were forced into slavery and the made their way to Canada.
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Fort Malden
Fort Malden, formally known as Fort Amherstburg, is a defence fortification located in Amherstburg, Ontario. It was built in 1795 by Great Britain in order to ensure the security of British North America against any potential threat of American i ...
– Amherstburg One of the routes to Ontario was to cross
Lake Erie
Lake Erie ( "eerie") is the fourth largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest globally. It is the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume of the Great Lakes and therefore also has t ...
from
Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Erie County, Ohio, Erie County, Ohio, United States. Situated along the shores of Lake Erie in the northern part of the state, Sandusky is located roughly midway between Toledo, Ohio, Toledo ( wes ...
to Fort Malden. Another route to Fort Malden was traveling across the
Detroit River
The Detroit River flows west and south for from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system. The river divides the metropolitan areas of Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, Windsor, Ontario—an area collectively refe ...
into Canada and then across to Amherstburg. A number of fugitive slaves lived in the area and
Isaac J. Rice established himself as a missionary, operating a school for black children.
#
Buxton National Historic Site and
Elgin settlement
Elgin may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Elgin County, Ontario
* Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Chatham-Kent, Ontario
* Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario
* ...
– Chatham, Ontario
The Elgin settlement was established by a Presbyterian minister,
Reverend William King, with fifteen former slaved on November 28, 1849. King came from Ohio, where he inherited fourteen enslaved people from his father-in-law and acquired another and set them free. King intended Elgin settlement to a refuge for runaway enslaved people. The Buxton Mission was established at the settlement.
#
Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site
The Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History (french: Musée Josiah Henson l'histoire des Afro-Canadiens) is an open-air museum in Dresden, Ontario, Canada, that documents the life of Josiah Henson, the history of slavery, and the Undergrou ...
and Dawn Settlement – Dresden.
[ Rev. ]Josiah Henson
Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery, in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's scho ...
, a former enslaved man who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad with his wife Nancy and their children, was a cofounder of the Dawn Settlement in 1841. Dawn Settlement was designed to be a community for black refugees, where children and adults could receive an education and develop skills so that they could prosper. They exported tobacco, grain, and black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain.
# John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area
John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area is the original home of John and Amelia (Gamble) Park. It is now an agricultural and living history museum of farm life in the 19th century in present-day Essex, Ontario.
Historic property
The property is ...
– Essex. The Park Homestead was a station on the Underground Railroad.
# John Freeman Walls Historic Site
The John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum is a historical site located in Puce, now Lakeshore, Ontario, about 40 km east of Windsor. Today, many of the original buildings remain, and in 1985, the site was opened as an U ...
– Lakeshore.[ John Freeman Walls, left his enslavers in North Carolina and settled in Canada. The ]Refugee Home Society The Refugee Home Society was an organization founded in Michigan and Ontario in 1851 that was designed to help former enslaved people become established in a community and remain free. It was located 20 miles from Windsor, Ontario, the border with t ...
supplied the money to buy land and he built a cabin. Church services were held there before the Puce Baptist Church was built. It was also a terminal stop on the Underground Railroad. Walls and his family stayed in Canada after the American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States. It was fought between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), the latter formed by states th ...
.
# Queen's Bush
The Queen's Bush was an area of what is now Southwestern, Ontario, between Waterloo County, Ontario and Lake Huron that was set aside as clergy reserves by the colonial government. It is known as the location of communities established by Black s ...
– Mapleton. Beginning in 1820, African American pioneers settled in the open lands of Queen's Bush. More than 1,500 blacks set up farms and created a community with churches and Mount Pleasant and Mount Hope schools, which were taught by American missionaries.
# St. Catharines – Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 slaves, including family and friends, us ...
lived in St. Catharines and attended the Salem Chapel for ten years. After she freed herself from slavery, she helped other enslaved people reach freedom in Canada. The town was a final stop on the Underground Railroad for many people.
# Sandwich First Baptist Church
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The Sandwich First Baptist Church is a Black Baptist church located in the Sandwich neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It was established to serve a community of refugees who had fled slavery on the Underground Railroad. The c ...
– Windsor. The church was built just over the border from the United States in Windsor, Ontario by blacks who came to Canada to live free. For its role in the lives of its congregants and as a sanctuary for fugitive slaves, it was designated a National Historic Site in 1999.
Nova Scotia
African-American people settled in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
since 1749.
# Birchtown National Historic Site – Birchtown. It was a settlement of black people from Colonial America
The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of North America from the early 17th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States after the Revolutionary War. In the ...
, who served the British during the American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
in exchange for their freedom. Birchtown was the largest community of free black people in British North America
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English overseas possessions, English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland (island), Newfound ...
during the late 18th century.
# Africville – Halifax. Black people settled in Africville beginning in 1848. Black residents did not have the same services as white people, like clean water and sewers, and lived on land that was not arable. Some were able to make a living for themselves and build a community with a Baptist church, a school, stores, and a post office. A plan was initiated to relocate families and raze the site of the town.
United States
Colorado
# Barney L. Ford Building — Denver, associated with escaped slave Barney Ford, who became a quite successful businessman and led political action towards Black voting rights in Colorado. He used the Underground Railroad (UGRR) to flee slavery and supported UGRR activities.
Connecticut
# Francis Gillette House — Bloomfield
# Austin F. Williams Carriagehouse and House
The Austin F. Williams Carriagehouse and House is a historic house at 127 Main Street in Farmington, Connecticut. Built in the mid-19th century, the property was designated a National Historic Landmark for the role it played in the celebrated c ...
— Farmington. Built in the mid-19th century, the property was designated a National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Only some 2,500 (~3%) of over 90,000 places listed ...
for the role it played in the celebrated case of the '' Amistad'' Africans, and as a "station" on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
.[ and ]
# First Church of Christ, Congregational — Farmington The church was a hub of the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
, and became involved in the celebrated case of the African slaves who revolted on the Spanish vessel ''La Amistad
''La Amistad'' (; Spanish for ''Friendship'') was a 19th-century two- masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard colonizing Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives, who had been captured and sold to European slave ...
''. When the Africans who had participated in the revolt were released in 1841, they came to Farmington.
# Polly and William Wakeman House — Wilton. The Wakemans were among a group of abolitionists in Wilton who helped runaway slaves. Underneath their house was a tunnel that was accessed by a trap door. They took people on late-night trips to neighboring towns on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
.
Delaware
# Camden Friends Meetinghouse
Camden Friends Meetinghouse is a historic Quaker meeting house located on Delaware Route 10 (Camden Wyoming Avenue) in Camden, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1805, and was still in operation as a Quaker meeting house when it was listed o ...
— Camden Quaker meeting house (built in 1806) of Camden Monthly Meeting, several of whose members were active in the Underground Railroad, including John Hunn, who is buried in its cemetery.
# John Dickinson Plantation — Dover
# New Castle Court House — New Castle
# Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse
Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse, also known as the Odessa Friends Meetinghouse, is a very small but historic Quaker meetinghouse on Main Street in Odessa, Delaware. It was built in 1785 by David Wilson and added to the National Register of ...
— Odessa
# Corbit–Sharp House — Odessa
# The Tilly Escape
The Tilly Escape occurred in October 1856 when an enslaved woman, Tilly, was led by Harriet Tubman from slavery in Baltimore to safety in Philadelphia. Historians who have studied Tubman consider it "one of her most complicated and clever escape ...
site, Gateway to Freedom: Harriet Tubman's Daring Route through Seaford — Seaford
# Friends Meeting House
A Friends meeting house is a meeting house of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), where meeting for worship is usually held.
Typically, Friends meeting houses are simple and resemble local residential buildings. Steeples, spires, and ...
— Wilmington
# Thomas Garrett House — Wilmington
District of Columbia
# Blanche K. Bruce House
# Camp Greene and Contraband Camp
# Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, administered by the National Park Service, is located at 1411 W Street, SE, in Anacostia, a neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington, D.C. United States. Established in 1988 ...
# Howard University
Howard University (Howard) is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commissi ...
, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
# Leonard Grimes Property Site
# Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
# ''Pearl'' incident at 7th Street Dock
Florida
# Negro Fort
Negro Fort (African Fort) was a short-lived fortification built by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812, in a remote part of what was at the time Spanish Florida. It was intended to support a never-realized British attack on the U.S. via i ...
, also known as British Fort and Fort Gadsden — near Sumatra, Franklin County
# Fort Mosé — St. John's County
Georgia
# First African Baptist Church — Savannah
# Dr. Robert Collins House - William and Ellen Craft Escape Site (NRHP
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
site) — Macon
Illinois
# Old Rock House — Alton
# New Philadelphia Town Site
The New Philadelphia National Historic Site is the original site of the now-vanished town of New Philadelphia, Illinois. It is located near the city of Barry, in Pike County.
Founded in 1836, New Philadelphia was the first town in the United ...
— Barry
# Quinn Chapel AME Church — Brooklyn
# Lucius Read House — Byron
# Galesburg Colony UGRR Freedom Station at Knox College — Galesburg
# Beecher Hall, Illinois College
Illinois College is a private liberal arts college in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church (USA). It was the second college founded in Illinois, but the first to grant a degree ( ...
— Jacksonville
# Graue Mill
The Graue Mill is a water-powered grist mill that was originally erected in 1852. Now a museum, it is one of two operating water-powered gristmills in Illinois (the other is the Franklin Creek Grist Mill). It is located on Salt Creek in Oak Bro ...
— Oak Brook
# Dr. Hiram Rutherford House and Office
The Dr. Hiram Rutherford House and Office is a historic house located at 14 S. Pike St. in Oakland, Illinois, Oakland, Illinois. The house was built in 1846 for Dr. Hiram Rutherford, a doctor who settled in Oakland in 1840. Rutherford was one of ...
— Oakland
# Owen Lovejoy House — Princeton
# John Hossack House
The John Hossack House is a historic house in Ottawa, Illinois, United States. It was built in 1854–55 and was a "station" on the Underground Railroad. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
History
The John Hoss ...
— Ottawa
# Dr. Richard Eells House — Quincy
# Maple Lane (Reverend Asa Turner Asa Turner (June 11, 1799 – December 12, 1885) was an American minister.
Turner, son of Asa and Abigail (Baldwin) Turner, was born in Templeton, Mass., June 11, 1799. On being converted, at a mature age, he turned his steps towards Yale Coll ...
House) – Quincy
# Mission Institute Number One – Quincy
# Mission Institute Number Two – Quincy
# Oakland (Dr. David Nelson House) – Quincy
# Blanchard Hall, Wheaton College — Wheaton
Indiana
# Levi Coffin House
The Coffin House is a National Historic Landmark located in the present-day town of Fountain City in Wayne County, Indiana. The two-story, eight room, brick home was constructed circa 1838–39 in the Federal style. The Coffin home became know ...
— Fountain City
# Bethel AME Church — Indianapolis
# Eleutherian College
Eleutherian College, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997, was founded as Eleutherian Institute in 1848 by a group of local anti-slavery Baptists at Lancaster in ...
Classroom and Chapel Building — Lancaster
# Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House
Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House is a historic home located at Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, and owned by the non-profit group, Historic Eleutherian College Incorporated. Built about 1850, the two-story, rectangular, limestone dwell ...
— Madison
# Madison Historic District — Madison
# Town Clock Church (now Second Baptist Church) — New Albany
# Quinn House, within Old Richmond Historic District
The Old Richmond Historic District is a neighborhood of historic residential and commercial buildings and national historic district located at Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana. The district encompasses 212 contributing buildings located just ...
— Richmond
# Phanuel Lutheran Church — Southeastern Fountain County
Iowa
# First Congregational Church — Burlington
# Horace Anthony House — Camanche
# Reverend George B. Hitchcock House
The Reverend George B. Hitchcock House is a historic house museum in Cass County, Iowa, near the city of Lewis. Built in 1856 by the Congregationalist minister George B. Hitchcock, it has features indicative of its use as a "station" on the U ...
— Lewis vicinity
# Henderson Lewelling House
The Henderson Lewelling House, also known as the Lewelling Quaker Museum, is a historic building located in Salem, Iowa, United States. Henderson Luelling (as he more consistently spelled his surname, following his father's practice) and his wife ...
— Salem
# Todd House — Tabor
# Jordan House — West Des Moines
Kansas
# Fort Scott National Historic Site
Fort Scott National Historic Site is a historical area under the control of the United States National Park Service in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States. Named after General Winfield Scott, who achieved renown during the Mexican–American ...
— Bourbon County
# John Brown Cabin — Osawatomie
Maine
# Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Brunswick
# Abyssinian Meeting House
The Abyssinian Meeting House is a historic church building at 73–75 Newbury Street, in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine, Portland, Maine.
Built 1828-1831 by Free negro, free African-Americans, it is Maine's oldest African-Ameri ...
— Portland
Maryland
# President Street Station
The President Street Station in Baltimore, Maryland, is a former train station and railroad terminal. Built in 1849 and opened in February 1850, the station saw some of the earliest bloodshed of the American Civil War (1861-1865), and was an impo ...
— Baltimore
# Harriet Tubman's birthplace — Dorchester County
# Riley-Bolten House — North Bethesda
# John Brown's Headquarters — Sample's Manor
Massachusetts
# African American National Historic Site — Boston
# William Lloyd Garrison House — Boston
# Black Heritage Trail
The Boston African American National Historic Site, in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts's Beacon Hill neighborhood, interprets 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th-century African-American community, connected ...
, including the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House — Boston[Site 6 - Lewis and Harriet Hayden House - 66 Phillips Street](_blank)
. African American Museum, Boston. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
# William Ingersoll Bowditch House
The William Ingersoll Bowditch House is a historic house at 9 Toxteth Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a good example of vernacular Gothic and Greek Revival architecture, built c. 1844-45 as part of one of Brookline's earliest formal r ...
— Brookline
# Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery, rural, or garden, cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middl ...
— Cambridge
# The Wayside
The Wayside is a historic house in Concord, Massachusetts. The earliest part of the home may date to 1717. Later it successively became the home of the young Louisa May Alcott and her family, who named it Hillside, author Nathaniel Hawthorne and ...
— Concord
# George Luther Stearns Estate — Medford
# Nathan and Mary Johnson House — New Bedford
# Jackson Homestead
The Jackson Homestead, located at 527 Washington Street, in the village of Newton Corner, in Newton, Massachusetts, is an historic house that served as a station on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War.
It was built in 1809 in the Fe ...
— Newton
# Ross Farm — Northampton
# Dorsey–Jones House — Northampton
# Liberty Farm — Worcester
Michigan
# Guy Beckley — Ann Arbor. Underground Railroad promoter and station master and anti-slavery lecturer. The Guy Beckley House is on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
# Erastus and Sarah Hussey — Battle Creek
# Second Baptist Church — Detroit
# Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House — Schoolcraft
# Wright Modlin — Williamsville, Cass County. His house was a railroad station, but he often traveled south to the Ohio River
The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...
(a border between the free and slave states) or into Kentucky
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where he found people escaping slavery and brought them up to Cass County. He was so successful that it angered Kentuckian slaveholders, who instigated the Kentucky raid on Cass County in 1847. He was also a central figure in '' The South Bend Fugitive Slave'' case.
Nebraska
# Mayhew Cabin
The Mayhew Cabin (officially Mayhew Cabin & Historic Village, also known as John Brown's Cave), in Nebraska City, Nebraska, is the only Underground Railroad site in Nebraska officially recognized by the National Park Service. It is included among ...
— Nebraska City
New Jersey
# Holden Hilton House — Jersey City
# Thomas Vreeland Jackson and John Vreeland Jackson house
Thomas may refer to:
People
* List of people with given name Thomas
* Thomas (name)
* Thomas (surname)
* Saint Thomas (disambiguation)
* Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church
* Thomas the Ap ...
— Jersey City[
# Mott House — Lawnside Borough][
# ]Red Maple Farm
Red Maple Farm, also known as Gulick House, is a historic house and bed and breakfast located on Raymond Road west of the Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, New Jersey, South Brunswick in Middlesex County ...
— Monmouth Junction
# Grimes Homestead — Mountain Lakes
# Rhoads Chapel — Saddlertown, Haddon Township[History]
, Saddler's Woods Conservation Association
# Bethel AME Church — Springtown[
# Mortonson-Van Leer Log Cabin — Swedesboro
# Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — Woolwich Township][
]
New York
# Edwin Weyburn Goodwin — Albany
# Stephen and Harriet Myers House — Albany
# Allegany County network: Baylies Bassett — Alfred and others
Others or The Others may refer to:
Fictional characters
* Others (A Song of Ice and Fire), Others (''A Song of Ice and Fire''), supernatural creatures in the fictional world of George R. R. Martin's fantasy series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''
* Ot ...
(including Henry Crandall Home — Almond; William Sortore Farm — Belmont); Marcus Lucas Home — Corning; Thatcher Brothers — Hornell, McBurney House
The McBurney House is the oldest surviving house in Steuben County, New York. It is located at 5872 Dineen Road (formerly New York Route 36), between the village of Canisteo and the city of Hornell, in the town of Hornellsville, New York. It is s ...
— Canisteo (now in town of Hornellsville); William Knight — Scio
# Harriet Tubman House and Thompson AME Zion Church — Auburn
# North Star Underground Railroad Museum
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— Ausable Chasm
# Michigan Street Baptist Church
Macedonia Baptist Church, more commonly known as Michigan Street Baptist Church, is a historic African American Baptist church located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a brick church constructed in 1845. Samuel H. Davis was the congr ...
— Buffalo
# Cadiz, Franklinville area network: Merlin Mead House and others
Others or The Others may refer to:
Fictional characters
* Others (A Song of Ice and Fire), Others (''A Song of Ice and Fire''), supernatural creatures in the fictional world of George R. R. Martin's fantasy series ''A Song of Ice and Fire''
* Ot ...
, including John Burlingame, Alfred Rice, Isaac Searle, and the owner of the Stagecoach Inn
# McClew Farm at Murphy Orchards — Burt
# St. James AME Zion Church — Ithaca
# John Brown Farm State Historic Site
The John Brown Farm State Historic Site includes the home and final resting place of abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859). It is located on John Brown Road in the town of North Elba, 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Lake Placid, New York, where ...
— Lake Placid
# Starr Clock Tinshop — Mexico
# Abolitionist Place — New York City: Brooklyn. Abolitionist Place is a section of Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn that used to be a center of anti-slavery and Underground Railroad activity. New York City was one of the busiest ports in the world in the 19th century. Some freedom seekers
In the United States, fugitive slaves or runaway slaves were terms used in the 18th and 19th century to describe people who fled slavery. The term also refers to the federal Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850. Such people are also called freed ...
traveled aboard ships amongst cargo, like tobacco or cotton from the Southern United States
The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...
and arrived in Brooklyn a few blocks away from Abolitionist Place. Underground Railroad conductors helped these freedom seekers, as well as people who traveled north on the Underground Railroad. They were provided needed shelter, like at the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Plymouth Church is an historic church located at 57 Orange Street between Henry and Hicks Streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City; the Church House has the address 75 Hicks Street. The church was built in 1849–50 ...
; clothing; and food.
# Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims
Plymouth Church is an historic church located at 57 Orange Street between Henry and Hicks Streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City; the Church House has the address 75 Hicks Street. The church was built in 1849–50 ...
— New York City: Brooklyn
# Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center
The Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center is a museum in Niagara Falls, New York, based on the history and legacy of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2018, it is located on the first floor of a historic former U.S. Customhouse buil ...
— Niagara Falls
# Buckout-Jones Building — Oswego
# Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House
Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House is a historic home located at Oswego in Oswego County, New York. It is a -story brick Italianate style residence built in 1857. Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke were prominent abolitionists and it is believed ...
— Oswego
# Hamilton and Rhoda Littlefield House — Oswego
# John B. and Lydia Edwards House — Oswego
# Orson Ames House — Mexico, Oswego County
# Oswego Market House — Oswego
# Oswego School District Public Library (presumably the Oswego City Library) — Oswego
# Richardson-Bates House Museum — Oswego
# Tudor E. Grant — Oswego
# Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office — Peterboro
# Smithfield Community Center — Peterboro, formerly a church; first meeting of New York Anti-Slavery Society held there; houses National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum
The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum is located on the second floor of a historic Presbyterian church, located at 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, between Elizabeth and Park Streets, in the hamlet of Peterboro, New York. The church, built in ...
.
# Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House Site
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...
— Pultneyville
# Foster Memorial AME Zion Church — Tarrytown
# Eber Pettit Home - Versailles
North Carolina
# Guilford College Woods meeting place, Guilford College
Guilford College is a private liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Guilford has both traditional students and students who attend its Center for Continuing Education (CCE). Founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of ...
— Greensboro
# Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island
The Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island, also known as the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, or "Freedman's Colony", was founded in 1863 during the Civil War after Union Major General John G. Foster, Commander of the 18th Army Corps, captured the ...
Network to Freedom site — Manteo, Outer Banks
Ohio
# Col. William Hubbard House — Ashtabula
# Captain Jonathan Stone House — Belpre
# Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Cincinnati
# House of Peter and Sarah M. Fossett — Cincinnati / Cumminsville
# Samuel and Sally Wilson House — Cincinnati
#James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is a historic farm situated in western Darke County, Ohio, United States. Located at 467 Stingley Road, approximately from the Indiana border,DeLorme. ''Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer''. 7th ed. Yarmouth: D ...
— Greenville
# Sawyer–Curtis House — Little Hocking
# Mount Pleasant Historic District — Mt. Pleasant
# Reuben Benedict House — Marengo
# Spring Hill — Massillon
# Wilson Bruce Evans House — Oberlin
# John P. Parker House — Ripley
# John Rankin House — Ripley
# Daniel Howell Hise House — Salem
# Rush R. Sloane House — Sandusky
# George W. Adams House / Prospect Place
Prospect Place, also known as Trinway Mansion and Prospect Place Mansion, is a 29-room mansion built by abolitionist George Willison Adams (G. W. Adams) in Trinway, Ohio, just north of Dresden in 1856. Today, it is the home of the non-profit ...
— Trinway
#Iberia
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
— Washington Township, Morrow County
# Putnam Historic District — Zanesville
Pennsylvania
# Kaufman's Station — Boiling Springs
# Oakdale — Chadds Ford
# John Brown House — Chambersburg
# Dobbin House — Gettysburg
# Thaddeus Stevens Home and Law Office – Lancaster
# Johnson House Johnson House may refer to:
United Kingdom
*Dr. Johnson's House, 17 Gough Square, London
United States
Alabama
*John Johnson House (Leighton, Alabama)
Arkansas
* Johnson House (514 East 8th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas)
* Johnson House (516 Ea ...
— Philadelphia
# Hosanna Meeting House — Chester County
# Liberty Bell
The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia. Originally placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence ...
, Independence National Historical Park
Independence National Historical Park is a federally protected historic district in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that preserves several sites associated with the American Revolution and the nation's founding history. Administered by the National P ...
— Philadelphia
# White Horse Farm — Phoenixville
# Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall
Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall is a group of historic buildings in Plymouth Meeting, Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In the decades prior to the American Civil War, the property served as an important station on ...
— Plymouth Meeting
# Bethel AME Zion Church — Reading
# F. Julius LeMoyne House
The F. Julius LeMoyne House is a historic house museum at 49 East Maiden Street in Washington, Pennsylvania. Built in 1812, it was the home of Dr. Francis Julius LeMoyne (1798–1897), an antislavery activist who used it as a stop on the Undergr ...
— Washington
# William Goodrich House — York
# Eusebius Barnard House — Pocopson
Rhode Island
# Isaac Rice Homestead — Newport
Tennessee
# Burkle Estate
The Burkle Estate is a historic home at 826 North Second Street in Memphis, Tennessee. It is also known as the Slavehaven. Although disputed by some historians, the Burkle Estate is claimed to have been part of the Underground Railroad- a secret ne ...
was possibly a station and is now Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum — Memphis
# Hunt-Phelan House — Memphis
Texas
# Matilda and Nathaniel Jackson
# Silvia and John Webber
Vermont
# Rowland E. Robinson House, Rokeby — Ferrisburgh
Virgin Islands
# Annaberg Sugar Plantation and School — St. John
Virginia
# Bruin's Slave Jail
Bruin's Slave Jail is a two-story brick building in Alexandria, Virginia, from which slave trader Joseph Bruin imprisoned slaves. Bruin's company, called Bruin and Hill, transported captured Africans to slave markets in the Southern United St ...
— Alexandria
# Rochelle–Prince House / Nat Turner Historic District — Courtland
# Moncure Conway House — Falmouth
# Theodore Roosevelt Island
Theodore Roosevelt Island is an island and national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. During the Civil War, it was used as a training camp for the United States Colored Troops. The island was given to the federal gover ...
— Rosslyn
# Fort Monroe
Fort Monroe, managed by partnership between the Fort Monroe Authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Park Service as the Fort Monroe National Monument, and the City of Hampton, is a former military installation in Hampton, Virgi ...
— Hampton
West Virginia
# Z. D. Ramsdell House
Z. D. Ramsdell House, also known as The Ramsdell House, is a historic home located at Ceredo, West Virginia, Ceredo, Wayne County, West Virginia, atop a mound claimed to be an Tumulus, Indian burial mound. It was built in 1857–1858, and is a tw ...
— Ceredo
# Jefferson County Courthouse — Charles Town
# Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac River, Potomac and Shenandoah River, Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes t ...
— Harpers Ferry
# Wheeling Hotel — Wheeling
Wisconsin
# Milton House — Milton
# Joshua Glover __NOTOC__
Joshua Glover was a fugitive slave from St. Louis, Missouri, who sought asylum in Racine, Wisconsin, in 1852. Upon learning his whereabouts in 1854, slave owner Bennami Garland attempted to use the Fugitive Slave Act to recover him. Glo ...
— Milwaukee
# Lyman Goodnow — Waukesha. Conductor, led 16-year-old Caroline Quarlls, the first known freedom seeker along Wisconsin's Underground Railroad, from Wisconsin to Canada.
Other articles and references
See also
* ''Index'': Underground Railroad locations
* National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, based on the history of the Underground Railroad. Opened in 2004, the Center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure fr ...
*'' The Underground Railroad Records''
* Underground Railroad Bicycle Route
The Underground Railroad Bicycle Route is a 2,000-mile bicycle touring route from Mobile, Alabama, to Owen Sound, Ontario. It was developed by Adventure Cycling Association with the Center for Minority Health (now called thCenter for Health Equity ...
References
Bibliography
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External links
Map of Underground Railroad locations
A Photographic Journey Along the Underground Railroad
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American Civil War sites
Underground Railroad sites
Secret places in the United States
African American-related lists
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. T ...