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Escapes across the Ohio were no less dramatic than those across the Berlin Wall more than a century later. Rankin’s house ... swell the ranks of the Underground Railroad. Although Rankin ...
The slaves knew only to look for a house on a hill with ... according to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. Outpost dot southern Ohio operated by folks like the ...
Ohio — home to more than 3,000 miles ... and their eight children. Their house, also a stop on the Underground Railroad, has been moved to the corner of Main and Center streets, located at ...
Like other multigenerational Glendalians, Parrish remembers as a child exploring tunnels underneath village homes, which adults told him were used in the Underground Railroad.
A field trip for Akron students focused on the Underground Railroad and African-American history in Cincinnati and Zanesville.
This museum, which opened in 2004, sits along the banks of the Ohio River ... into the Cincinnati area when following the Underground Railroad. Today, the National Underground Railroad Freedom ...
The system even used terms used in railroading: the homes and businesses ... The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding ...