A new app, the Freedom Journey App, has been launched to highlight key figures and locations along the path of the ...

Two historic sites that once served as safe havens for those escaping slavery are now officially part of the National ...

(LEX 18) — Through the Civil War, the Underground Railroad was a pathway to freedom for those held as slaves. Kentucky was the last slave state people had to pass through in their race to freedom.

There were no signs, there were no trails, there were no maps. So how would ... through Mississippi and Kentucky before arriving in Ohio. This was the Underground Railroad. Escaping through ...

Two sites in Ironton to be dedicated on Wednesday The Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative will be dedicating two ...

But with Underground Railroad and Indigenous American historic ... Detroit Thornton and Lucie Blackburn escaped from Louisville, Kentucky, and lived in Detroit for two years before they were ...

and next year will publish a history of the Still family with the University Press of Kentucky titled “STILL Family: Legacy of the Underground Railroad.” “I wanted this to be published by UK ...

A historic Kentucky site has joined the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, which commemorates the stories of people who freed themselves or were ...

Word inevitably spread and it became the target destination for countless Kentucky slaves seeking the Underground Railroad. To stream WHAS11 on your phone, you need the WHAS11 app. "It was very ...

either to commemorate the Underground Railroad or just in case a hiding places were still needed, which, in Jim Crow Kentucky, they often were. Church members always knew about the space ...