In Ohio, the Underground Railroad routes scattered throughout the state like a spider web. One of the major routes that ran through Central Ohio, including Columbus, followed a path that is today ...

While Ohio was a hub for Underground Railroad activity due to its location and abolitionist stance, and there are some maps with sketches of potential routes with few confirmed locations ...

The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more ...

Soon after we located at Newport, I found that we were on a line of the U.G.R.R. [Underground ... Ohio River, where fugitives generally crossed, and to those northward of us on the various routes ...

Photo Provided The public is invited to learn more about the Buckeye State’s abolitionist past on a statewide Underground Railroad Trail, which includes the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing.

Their home was near important escape routes ... via the Underground Railroad over 20 years, providing them with food, clothes, and shelter. She died on May 22, 1881, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Underground Railroad was a network of routes by which African slaves in the 19th century United States attempted to escape to free states, or as far north as Canada, with the aid of abolitionists.