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Underground Railroad promoter and station master and anti-slavery lecturer. The Guy Beckley House is on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. [43] Erastus and Sarah Hussey — Battle Creek [44] Second Baptist Church — Detroit [17] Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House — Schoolcraft [17] Wright Modlin — Williamsville, Cass County.
Pages in category "Houses on the Underground Railroad" The following 103 pages are in this category, out of 103 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The home served as a "station" on the Underground Railroad, which helped hundreds of fugitive slaves find freedom in the North and Canada. Serving as "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, the Joneses provided food and shelter to fugitive slaves, as well as clothing, money for transportation, and often bail and bond. According to Jones ...
Mifflin farmstead set to open to the public in the spring. The first phase of the project, which will begin this fall, will involve construction of a new driveway, 30 parking spaces and an ADA ...
Aug. 11—An estimated 100,000 slaves sought freedom in the 1800s through a network of supporters and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad, according to the National Underground Railroad ...
Then, in 2023, the website TourismOhio selected the Haines House as one of 15 sites on its Ohio Historic Underground Railroad Trail, which recognized Ohio as being on the "Main Line" of the ...
Octagon House in Watertown, Wisconsin, built 1853 David Van Gelder Octagon House in Catskill, New York, built 1860, photographed on January 13, 2008. This is a list of octagon houses. The style became popular in the United States and Canada following the publication of Orson Squire Fowler's 1848 book The Octagon House, A Home for All.
The Johnson House is a representative station on the Underground Railroad, and the Johnsons were among the leading abolitionists of their generation. [ 3 ] The house, then one of the largest in Germantown (then a suburb of Philadelphia), was built between 1765 and 1768 by Jacob Norr for Dirck Jansen, who owned the ground on which nearby Upsala ...