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A tunnel was recently discovered in a Pennsylvania borough that could be part of the Underground Railroad, a historian theorizes. Researchers in the area have previously found sites that once ...
The Underground Railroad was a loose network of people who work together to offer shelter and aid to freedom seekers from the South, and it ran through the Susquehanna Valley. In this episode of ...
Crystal Crampton, president of the Kennett Underground Railroad Center, is among the volunteers working to preserve that history. The center offers bus tours of several Underground Railroad ...
Despite popular depictions of the Underground Railroad, escaping over land was almost impossible in the Deep South. So thousands of enslaved people found allies on the water.
The set of 20 stamps features freedom seekers and those who helped others escape, as well as a map illustrating the broad paths they took and an explanation of the Underground Railroad Network to ...
A Pennsylvania Building Believed To Be A Underground Railroad Stop Will Turn Into Apartments. Equity Platforms, a Black-led company, will turn the three-story building and the carriage house ...
Ohio was a key and prolific partner in assisting freedom seekers through the Underground Railroad. ... Ohio, in Fairfield County from western Pennsylvania. ... A Lucy Depp Park map circa 1920.
A sewer looked at as old and rusty could be a piece of important history. The Merrick Art Gallery in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, claims the brick tunnel, dated from the 1800s, may be a route of ...
Tours begin at the Kennett Underground Railroad Center, a single room at a former Quaker meeting house. Social reformers Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth ...