From the 1830s to the 1860s, John Rankin, a farmer, was the linchpin of Ripley’s Underground Railroad. Well before the Civil War began, the Ohio River separated North and South, in effect two ...

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A companion display addresses the ways in which the railroad transformed the American West while also bisecting Native American lands and destroying wildlife habitats. “If one argues that ...

Deep in the Appalachian foothills of southeastern Ohio lies a portal to another time—and possibly another dimension. Moonville Tunnel in McArthur stands as a brick-and-stone monument to a vanished ...

The trail to the tunnel follows the old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bed, now part of the Moonville Rail Trail. It’s a relatively easy hike through beautiful woodland scenery that lulls you into a false ...