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The list of Underground Railroad sites includes abolitionist locations of sanctuary, support, and transport for former slaves in 19th century North America before and during the American Civil War. It also includes sites closely associated with people who worked to achieve personal freedom for all Americans in the movement to end slavery in the United States.

The site http://waymarking.com maintains a list of 201 marked (with plaques, statues, or monuments) stops on the Underground Railroad.[1]

Colorado

  1. Barney L. Ford Building — Denver (Location 39°44′59″N 104°59′59″W / 39.749682°N 104.999836°W / 39.749682; -104.999836)

Connecticut

  1. William Wakeman/Ovals House - Wilton [2] (Location 41°13′35″N 73°25′18″W / 41.226402°N 73.421737°W / 41.226402; -73.421737)
  1. Joshua Bird/Bird Tavern - Bethlehem [3][4]

Delaware

List of Underground Railroad sites is located in Delaware
Appoquinimink
Appoquinimink
Camden
Camden
Corbit-Sharp
Corbit-Sharp
Wilmington
Wilmington
New Castle
New Castle
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UGRR Sites in Delaware
  1. Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse — Odessa 39°27′26″N 75°39′50″W / 39.457350°N 75.663787°W / 39.457350; -75.663787
  2. Camden Friends Meetinghouse - Camden 39°44′31″N 75°33′15″W / 39.742060°N 75.554090°W / 39.742060; -75.554090
  3. Corbit-Sharp House - Odessa 39°27′14″N 75°39′24″W / 39.453905°N 75.656727°W / 39.453905; -75.656727
  4. Friends Meeting House — Wilmington 39°44′32″N 75°33′16″W / 39.742157°N 75.554342°W / 39.742157; -75.554342
  5. New Castle Court House - New Castle 39°44′26″N 75°32′58″W / 39.740561°N 75.549415°W / 39.740561; -75.549415

District of Columbia

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

Florida

  1. Angola - Manatee County
  2. Negro Fort - Franklin County
  3. Fort Mosé — St. John's County

Indiana

Eleutherian College built in 1856, the building was used as a public school and community center after the college's closure in the 1880s
  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
  5. Phanuel Lutheran Church - Southeastern Fountain County, IN https://www.commercial-news.com/news/local_news/church-continues--year-tradition/article_e3066f24-d198-5261-816e-5f0ea080ec03.html

Illinois

List of Underground Railroad sites is located in Illinois
Graue Mill & Museum
Graue Mill & Museum
The John Hossack house
The John Hossack house
Lovejoy Homestead
Lovejoy Homestead
Beecher Hall
Beecher Hall
Dr. Richard Eell's House
Dr. Richard Eell's House
Dr. Hiram Rutherford House
Dr. Hiram Rutherford House
The Old Rock House
The Old Rock House
James T. Wheeler House
James T. Wheeler House
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UGRR Sites in Illinois
  1. Owen Lovejoy House — Princeton
  2. John Hossack House — Ottawa
  3. Dr. Richard Eels House — Quincy[5]
  4. Graue Mill — Oak Brook
  5. The Old Rock House - Alton[6]
  6. James T. Wheeler House — St. Charles[7][8]
  7. Beecher Hall - Jacksonville
  8. Dr. Hiram Rutherford House and Office - Oakland

Iowa

  1. First Congregational Church — Burlington
  2. Horace Anthony House — Camanche
  3. Reverend George B. Hitchcock House — Lewis vicinity
  4. Henderson Lewelling House — Salem
  5. Todd House — Tabor
  6. Jordan House — West Des Moines

Kansas

  1. John Brown Cabin — Osawatomie

Maine

  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Brunswick
  2. Abyssinian Meeting House — Portland

Massachusetts

  1. African American National Historic Site — Boston
  2. Lewis and Harriet Hayden House - Boston
  3. The Wayside — Concord
  4. Liberty Farm — Worcester
  5. Nathan and Mary Johnson House — New Bedford
  6. Jackson Homestead — Newton
  7. George Luther Stearns Estate — Medford
  8. The "Greep" House, built 1745 - Foxborough

Maryland

  1. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument - Cambridge
  2. John Brown's Headquarters — Sample's Manor
  3. Riley-Bolten House — North Bethesda

Michigan

  1. Dr. Nathan Thomas House — Schoolcraft
  2. Second Baptist Church — Detroit

Ellis House, Cassopolis Michigan, burned down in the 1970s while being renovated.

Nebraska

  1. Mayhew Cabin (now known as Mayhew Cabin with John Brown's Cave Museum) located in Nebraska City, Nebraska www.mayhewcabin.org

New Jersey

Grimes Homestead
  1. Grimes Homestead, Mountain Lakes[9]
  2. Mott House Lawnside Borough[9]
  3. Bethel AME Church, located in Springtown, New Jersey (a noted Underground Railway site)[9]
  4. Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, Woolwich Township[9]
  5. Van Leer Log Cabin, Swedesboro, New Jersey [10]
  6. Holden Hilton House, Jersey City[11]
  7. Thomas Vreeland Jackson and John Vreeland Jackson house, Jersey City[11]
  8. Rhoads Chapel, Saddlertown[12] Haddon Township
  9. Hardyston, NJ- Alfred Churchville
  10. Red Maple Farm, Monmouth Junction[13]

New York

  1. Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged, Residence and Thompson AME Zion Church — Auburn
  2. Frederick Douglass Home (Rochester
  3. John Brown Farm — Lake Placid
  4. St. James AME Zion Church — Ithaca
  5. Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office — Peterboro
  6. Foster Memorial AME Zion Church — Tarrytown
  7. John Sands House -Peekskill - Westchester County
  8. David H. Richardson Farm — Henrietta
  9. Home of Beriah Green, and student residences of the Oneida Institute, Whitesboro, Oneida County
  10. Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence - Albany
  11. Cyrus Gates Farmstead - Maine, New York
  12. John W. Jones Home - Elmira-Chemung County
  13. Marcus Lucas Home - Corning-Steuben County
  14. McBurney House - Canisteo, Steuben County (now in town of Hornellsville), marked by the NY Education Department[14]
  15. Thatcher Brothers -Hornell-Steuben County
  16. Henry Crandall Home - Almond-Allegany County
  17. William Sortore Farm - Belmont-Allegany County
  18. CJ Martino Bed and Breakfast - Cuba-Allegany County
  19. Dr. Lambert Whitney - Olean-Cattaraugus County
  20. Sarah Johnson Home/Oakhill Cemetery - Olean-Cattaraugus County
  21. Isaac Searle Home - Cadiz-Cattaraugus County
  22. Eber Pettit Home - Versailles-Cattaraugus County
  23. Hiram Thayer -Frewsburg-Chautaqua County
  24. Dr. James Pettit - Fredonia-Chautaqua County
  25. Catherine Harris Home -Jamestown-Chautaqua County
  26. Oliver Lee Home - Silver Creek-Chautaqua County
  27. McClew Farm -Burt - Niagara County
  28. First Presbyterian Church - Lewiston - Niagara County
  29. David Ruggle's Home - TriBeCa - Manhattan
  30. Rossville AME Zion Church - Staten Island
  31. Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims — Brooklyn
  32. Lafayette Street Baptist Church - Brooklyn
  33. Samuel Keese Smith House Peru - Clinton County
  34. Old Stone Library -Fort Ann - Washington County
  35. Bristol Congregational Church -Volney - Oswego County
  36. Wesleyan Methodist Church -Syracuse
  37. Howland Slocum Store-Sherwood - Cayuga County
  38. Captain Horatio Throop House -Pultneyville - Wayne County

North Carolina

  1. Guilford College Woods, Guilford College — Greensboro
  2. Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island - Manteo, Outer Banks

Ohio

Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, OH.
  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Cincinnati
  2. John P. Parker House — Ripley
  3. John Rankin House — Ripley
  4. Jonathan Stone House — Belpre
  5. Sawyer-Curtis House — Little Hocking
  6. Constitution Station — Constitution (Washington County)
  7. Smith Station — Cutler
  8. Mount Pleasant Historic District — Mt. Pleasant
  9. Wilson Bruce Evans House — Oberlin
  10. Omar Chapel — Reed Township, Seneca County
  11. Rush R. Sloane House — Sandusky
  12. Daniel Howell Hise House — Salem
  13. Col. William Hubbard House — Ashtabula
  14. Judge Thomas J. Anderson, Marion
  15. Joseph Morris House - Richland Township, Marion
  16. Reuben Benedict House — Marengo, Morrow County
  17. Alum Creek Friends — Marengo, Morrow County
  18. Newell House — Painesville
  19. Samuel and Sally Wilson House — Cincinnati
  20. James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead — German Township, Darke County
  21. Spring Hill — Massillon
  22. Putnam Historic District — Zanesville
  23. Iberia — Washington Township, Morrow County
  24. Gammon House — Springfield
  25. George W. Adams House / Prospect Place - Trinway, Muskingham County
  26. Springboro Historic District
  27. John Brown house and tannery — Hudson
  28. House of Elizur Wright, father of the abolitionist Elizur Wright – Tallmadge
  29. House of Peter and Sarah M. Fossett - Cincinnati / Cumminsville[15][16]

Ontario

  1. Amherstburg Freedom Museum - Amherstburg[17]
  2. Fort Malden - Amherstburg
  3. John Freeman Walls Historic Site - Lakeshore[17][18]
  4. Queen's Bush, Mapleton[19]
  5. Sandwich First Baptist Church - Windsor[18]
  6. Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site - Dresden[17][18]

Pennsylvania

John Brown House in Chambersburg
People's Hall in Ercildoun
  1. Bethel AME Zion Church — Reading
  2. John Brown House — Chambersburg
  3. James Beach Clow House — Ellwood
  4. Moses Coates Jr. Farm — Schuylkill Township
  5. Unitarian Universalist Church - Girard
  6. William Goodrich House — York
  7. Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall — Plymouth Meeting
  8. John Brown Tannery Site — Guys Mills
  9. Johnson House — Philadelphia
  10. Daniel Kaufman House — Boiling Springs
  11. F. Julius LeMoyne House — Washington
  12. Mount Gilead A.M.E. Church — Buckingham
  13. Oakdale — Chadds Ford
  14. People's Hall — Ercildoun
  15. Sellers Hall — Upper Darby
  16. Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith House, Lancaster, Pennsylvania[20][full citation needed]
  17. Thornfield — Drexel Hill
  18. White Horse Farm — Elijah Funk / Hannah Adamson Pennypacker House, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
  19. Vickers House (Exton, Pennsylvania)

Tennessee

Burkle Estate (Slavehaven) in Memphis, Tennessee.
  1. Burkle Estate — Memphis
  2. Hunt-Phelann House — Memphis

Vermont

  1. Rokeby — Ferrisburgh

Virginia

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

West Virginia

  1. The Ramsdell House - Ceredo, Wayne County, West Virginia
  2. Jefferson County Courthouse — Charles Town
  3. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park — Harpers Ferry

Wisconsin

  1. Milton House — Milton
  2. Samuel Brown Homestead — Milwaukee (Caroline Quarrels rescue, 1842)
  3. Cathedral Square, Milwaukee — (Joshua Glover rescue, 1854)
  4. First Presbyterian Church ,

Racine

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.waymarking.com/cat/details.aspx?f=1&guid=850c37e8-f369-4d0c-a1e7-cc6dbf7c8ac7, retrieved August 14, 2017.
  2. ^ "List of Sites - Underground Railroad - Connecticut Freedom Trail". ctfreedomtrail.org.
  3. ^ http://www.ci.bethlehem.ct.us/History-Genealogy/Early_Bethlehem/underground.htm
  4. ^ https://historicbuildingsct.com/woodward-house-1740/
  5. ^ "Aboard the Underground Railroad--Dr. Richard Ells House". www.nps.gov.
  6. ^ "The Old Rock House – Alton, IL - Underground Railroad Sites on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com.
  7. ^ http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/stc/id/31. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ https://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2008/03/16/news/local/news15.txt. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ a b c d "The Official Web Site for The State of New Jersey". www.state.nj.us.
  10. ^ "Historical Sites, Mortonson-Schorn Log Cabin". Gloucester County, New Jersey. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  11. ^ a b Karnoutsos, Carmela. "Underground Railroad". Jersey City Past and Present. New Jersey City University. Retrieved 2011-03-27. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. ^ History, Saddler's Woods Conservation Association
  13. ^ Switala, William J., Underground railroad in New Jersey and New York, ISBN 978-0-8117-3258-1
  14. ^ Oldest house in Steuben County, NY - Underground Railroad Sites on Waymarking.com, http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMEW9J_Oldest_house_in_Steuben_County_NY, retrieved August 11, 2017.
  15. ^ "Peter Fossett". www.monticello.org. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
  16. ^ "Last of Jefferson's Slaves". The Boston Globe. January 8, 1901. Retrieved January 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ a b c Cooper, Afua (February 24, 2017). "At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty". www.nytimes.com. The New York Times Company. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  18. ^ a b c "5 Canadian stations of the Underground Railroad". CBC Kids. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  19. ^ Henry, Natasha L.; McIntosh, Andrew (January 31, 2020). "Underground Railroad". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved August 2, 2020.
  20. ^ Delle, James A.; Levine, Mary Ann. "Excavations at the Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith Site, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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