List of Underground Railroad sites

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This is a list of sites by state on the Underground Railroad:

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[edit] Colorado

  1. Barney L. Ford Building — Denver

[edit] Delaware

  1. Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse — Odessa
  2. Friends Meeting House — Wilmington

[edit] District of Columbia

  1. Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
  2. Mary Ann Shadd Cary House

[edit] Florida

  1. British Fort — Sumatra vicinity
  2. Ft. Mose Site — St. John's County

[edit] Indiana

  1. Bethel AME Church — Indianapolis
  2. Levi Coffin House — Fountain City
  3. Eleutherian College Classroom and Chapel Building — Lancaster
  4. Second Baptist Church (formerly Town Clock Church) - New Albany

[edit] Illinois

  1. Owen Lovejoy House — Princeton
  2. John Hossack House — Ottawa
  3. Dr. Richard Ells House — Quin

[edit] Iowa

  1. Todd House — Tabor
  2. Reverend George B. Hitchcock House — Lewis vicinity
  3. Henderson Lewelling House — Salem
  4. Jordan House — West Des Moines

[edit] Kansas

  1. John Brown Cabin — Osawatomie

[edit] Maine

  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Brunswick

[edit] Massachusetts

  1. African American National Historic Site — Boston
  2. William Lloyd Garrison House — Boston
  3. William Ingersoll Bowditch House — Brookline
  4. The Wayside — Concord
  5. Liberty Farm — Worcester
  6. Nathan and Mary Johnson House — New Bedford
  7. Jackson Homestead — Newton

[edit] Maryland

  1. John Brown's Headquarters — Sample's Manor

[edit] Michigan

  1. Dr. Nathan Thomas House — Schoolcraft
  2. Second Baptist Church — Detroit
  3. Jovany Baltazar — North Carolina

[edit] New Jersey

  1. Grimes Homestead, Mountain Lakes[1]
  2. Mott House Lawnside Borough[1]
  3. Bethel AME Church, Greenwich[1]
  4. Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Woolwich Township[1]
  5. Holden Hilton House, Jersey City[2]
  6. Thomas Vreeland Jackson and John Vreeland Jackson house, Jersey City[2]
  7. Rhoads Chapel, Saddlertown[3] Haddon Township
  8. Hardyston, NJ- Alfred Churchville
  9. Red Maple Farm, Monmouth Junction[4]

[edit] New York

  1. Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged , Residence and Thompson AME Zion Church — Auburn
  2. St. James AME Zion Church — Ithaca
  3. Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office — Peterboro
  4. John Brown Farm and Gravesite — Lake Placid
  5. Foster Memorial AME Zion Church — Tarrytown
  6. Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims — Brooklyn
  7. David H. Richardson Farm — Henrietta
  8. Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence - Albany
  9. CJ Martino Bed and Breakfast - Cuba

[edit] Ohio

  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Cincinnati
  2. John P. Parker House — Ripley
  3. John Rankin House — Ripley
  4. Mount Pleasant Historic District — Mt. Pleasant
  5. Wilson Bruce Evans House — Oberlin
  6. Rush R. Sloane House — Sandusky
  7. Daniel Howell Hise House — Salem
  8. Col. William Hubbard House — Ashtabula
  9. Reuben Benedict House — Marengo
  10. Samuel and Sally Wilson House — Cincinnati
  11. James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead — German Township, Darke County
  12. Spring Hill — Massillon
  13. Putnam Historic District — Zanesville
  14. Iberia — Washington Township[clarification needed]

[edit] Pennsylvania

  1. F. Julius LeMoyne House — Washington
  2. John Brown House — Chambersburg
  3. Bethel AME Zion Church — Reading
  4. Oakdale — Chadds Ford
  5. White Horse Farm — Phoenixville
  6. Johnson House — Philadelphia

[edit] Tennessee

  1. Burkle Estate — Memphis
  2. Hunt-Phelann House — Memphis

[edit] Vermont

  1. Rokeby — Ferrisburgh

[edit] Virginia

  1. Bruin's Slave Jail — Alexandria
  2. Fort Monroe — Hampton

[edit] West Virginia

  1. Jefferson County Courthouse — Charles Town
  2. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park — Harpers Ferry

[edit] Wisconsin

  1. Milton House — Milton
  2. Samuel Brown Homestead — Milwaukee (Caroline Quarrels rescue, 1842)
  3. Cathedral Square, Milwaukee — (Joshua Glover rescue, 1854)
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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d www.state.nj.us/nj/about/history/underground_railroad.html
  2. ^ a b Karnoutsos, Carmela. "Undergound Railroad". Jersey City Past and Present. New Jersey City University. http://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchistory/Pages/U_Pages/Underground_Railroad.htm. Retrieved 2011-03-27. 
  3. ^ History, Saddler's Woods Conservation Association
  4. ^ Switala, William J., Underground railroad in New Jersey and New York, ISBN 9780811732581, http://books.google.nl/books?id=CKjSCjMKhmYC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=Red+Maple+Farm+monmouth&source=bl&ots=u4McpdP2x5&sig=V38Gx9MDY4RuIk1XRrPhKz31soY&hl=nl&ei=FZAfTqrqO8iBOpWYrasD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Red%20Maple%20Farm%20monmouth&f=false 
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