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Selected Underground Railroad Station and Related Sites, 1822–1865
CANADA
ME
1
d
VT NH
MN
MA
2 NY
3
WI
MI
20
PA
IA
IL
17
IN
16
OH
14 15
18
KY
ory
13
10
CT
7 8 NJ
9
12
19
21
6
4
5
MD
RI
NY
11
DE
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
WV
VA
MO
NC
1. Rokeby: Ferrisburgh, VT. Rokeby was home to the Robinson family, who
harbored many fugitive slaves.*
2. Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office: Peterboro, NY. During the 1840s and
1850s, Gerrit Smith acted as a conductor in the Underground Railroad. He sold
farm tracts through his Land Office to runaways for one dollar each.*
3. St. James AME Zion Church: Ithaca, NY. St. James's role as an important
Underground Railroad station persuaded many former slaves to settle in Ithaca.
Prominent abolitionists were associated with the church.
4. Foster Memorial AME Zion Church: Tarrytown, NY. This church was founded in
1860 by Amanda Foster, a free black who was active in the Underground
Railroad, and her husband. Members of the church helped fugitive slaves
escape to the North during the Civil War.
5. Austin F. Williams Carriagehouse and House: Farmington, CT. Austin F.
Williams, along with local abolitionists, harbored many fugitive slaves. Williams
also housed the male Africans involved in the Amistad trial after their acquittal
in 1841.**
6. Bethel AME Zion Church: Reading, PA. The Bethel congregation was active in
the Underground Railroad from 1837 through the end of the Civil War. Many
members, escaped slaves themselves, opened their homes to fugitives.
7. White Horse Farm: Phoenixville, PA. Built around 1770, White Horse Farm
was the home of abolitionist Elijah Pennypacker. He opened the farm to
fugitive slaves in 1840, personally transporting hundreds of runaways from his
home to other stations in the North.**
8. Johnson House: Philadelphia, PA. During the 1850s the Johnson family used
this house, and the houses of nearby relatives, to shelter fugitive slaves.*
9. Oakdale: Chadds Ford, PA. Oakdale, the first Underground Railroad stop
north of Delaware, was built in 1940 by Quakers Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall.
It contained a concealed room built especially for escaped slaves.**
12. Wilson Bruce Evans House: Oberlin, OH. Wilson Bruce Evans was a free black
and a prominent abolitionist. Evans and his brother Henry participated in the 1858
rescue of an escaped slave who had been captured and was to be taken back to his
master in Kentucky.***
13. Village of Mt. Pleasant Historic District: Mt. Pleasant, OH. Mount Pleasant was
home to a large Quaker abolitionist population. As a station on the Underground
Railroad, the town attracted fugitive slaves and free blacks.
14. John P. Parker House: Ripley, OH. John Parker, a former slave, led many
fugitive slaves from Kentucky to his Ohio home. Parker delivered the runaways to
Underground Railroad conductors like John Rankin, who would help them to the
next depot.*
15. John Rankin House: Ripley, OH. John Rankin's house is believed to have been
one of the first stations on the Ohio River route of the Underground Railroad.
Between 1822 and 1865, Rankin assisted hundreds of slaves to freedom.*
16. Levi Coffin House: Fountain City, IN. Levi Coffin and his wife may have helped
more than 2,000 slaves escape to freedom, using his house as a station. Because of
his extensive participation in the Underground Railroad, Coffin has often been
called its "president."*
17. Bethel AME Zion Church: Indianapolis, IN. Originally known as "Indianapolis
Station," this church and its congregation harbored fugitive slaves en route to
Canada.
18. Eleutherian College Classroom and Chapel Building: Lancaster, IN.
Eleutherian College was the first college in Indiana to admit students regardless
of race or gender. Lancaster was a well-known stop on the Underground Railroad;
some of the college trustees were conductors.***
19. Owen Lovejoy House: Princeton, IL. Owen Lovejoy used his home as a depot
on the Underground Railroad in the 1840s and 1850s. Escaped slaves passing
through Princeton were said to be riding the "Lovejoy Line."*
10. F. Julius LeMoyne House: Washington, PA. LeMoyne was part of a tightly-knit
Underground Railroad network in southwest Pennsylvania. His house was a
center for abolitionists from the 1830s until the end of slavery in 1865.*
20. Milton House: Milton, WI. Joseph Goodrich built Milton House and the
accompanying log cabin in the mid-1800s. Slaves escaping to communities along
Lake Michigan would enter the log cabin and walk through a tunnel that led to
the basement of the house, where food and shelter were provided.*
11. Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House: Odessa, DE. Built in 1783, this Meeting
House housed a strongly antislavery congregation.
21. George B. Hitchcock House: Lewis vicinity, IA. The Reverend Hitchcock harbored
runaway slaves on their way North, as well as abolitionists travelling through Iowa.
*National Historic Landmark, **Closed to the public
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