List of Underground Railroad sites

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



  1. Austin F. Williams Carriagehouse and House--Farmington

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[edit] Colorado

  1. Barney L. Ford Building--Denver

[edit] Delaware

  1. Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House--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

[edit] Illinois

  1. Owen Lovejoy House--Princeton
  2. John Hossack House--Ottawa
  3. Dr. Richard Ells House--Quincy

[edit] Iowa

  1. Todd House--Tabor
  2. 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. Libery 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

[edit] New Jersey

  1. The Grimes Homestead — Mountain Lakes
  2. Peter Mott House — Lawnside Borough
  3. Bethel AME Church — Greenwich
  4. Mount Zion AME Church and Mount Zion Cemetery — Woolwich Township
  5. Rhoads Chapel, Saddlertown — Haddon Township

[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

[edit] Ohio

  1. Harriet Beecher Stowe House--Cincinnati
  2. John P. Parker House--Ripley
  3. John Rankin House--Ripley
  4. Village of Mt. 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--Greenville
  12. Spring Hill--Massillon
  13. Putnam Historic District--Zanesville
  14. Mechanicsburg, OH
  15. Iberia--Washington Township

[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] Vermont

  1. Rokeby--Ferrisburgh

[edit] Virginia

  1. Bruin's Slave Jail --Alexandria
  2. Fort Monroe -- on 27 May 1861, Major General Benjamin Butler made his famous "contraband" decision, by which escaping slaves reaching Union lines would not be returned to bondage. The order resulted in waves of enslaved people fleeing to Union lines around Fort Monroe, which was Butler's headquarters in Virginia, and earned Fort Monroe its other nickname of "Freedom's Fortress", as any slave reaching it would be free.

[edit] West Virginia

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

[edit] Wisconsin

  1. Milton House--Milton
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