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BEREA, Ohio -- Following the ... Underground railroad: The Middleburg Heights Historical Society will host an event at 1 p.m. May 10 at the Middleburg Heights Community Center, Room A, 16000 ...
Ohio's newest historical trail pays tribute to the Underground Railroad and the people and places that connected the movement. The Ohio Department of Development and TourismOhio are officially ...
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio – Patti Jamieson was about to give up. It was spring of 2002, and she and her 13-year-old son, Andy McGough, had been driving through the backwoods of southwest Ohio on a ...
CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio attraction is showing the state’s integral role in the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad wasn’t actually underground. It was a system of people ...
Earlier this month, the National Park Service added six Ohio sites to its National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom — a program meant to preserve and honor “the history of resistance to ...
Now living in Santa Fe, N.M., her interest in Ohio’s status as the “Grand Central Station of this secret kind of railroad” began during her childhood in Ohio’s Lawrence County, miles from ...
September is International Underground Railroad Month, and local historians have planned several events.On Sept. 14-15, the Ohio History Connection open doors e ...
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) — September is International Underground Railroad Month. That’s because it was the month when both Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery.
While the antislavery Quakers played a role in the Underground Railroad in some parts of Ohio, Glendale had Swedenborgians. Many followers of Swedenborgian, also called The New Church, opposed ...
The Ohio Department of Development and TourismOhio are officially launching the Ohio Historical Underground Railroad Trail. "We've created this new trail to show both visitors and Ohioans how to learn ...
CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio attraction is showing the state’s integral role in the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad wasn’t actually underground. It was a system of people ...