List of Underground Railroad sites

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 39.749682°N 104.999836°W)

Connecticut

1. William Wakeman/Ovals House - Wilton[2] (Location 41.226402°N 73.421737°W)

1. Joshua Bird/Bird Tavern - Bethlehem[3][4]

Delaware

Appoquinimink

Camden

Corbit-Sharp

Wilmington

New Castle

UGRR Sites in Delaware

1. Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse — Odessa 39.457350°N 75.663787°W
2. Camden Friends Meetinghouse - Camden 39.742060°N 75.554090°W
3. Corbit-Sharp House - Odessa 39.453905°N 75.656727°W
4. Friends Meeting House — Wilmington 39.742157°N 75.554342°W
5. New Castle Court House - New Castle 39.740561°N 75.549415°W

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

Graue Mill & Museum

The John Hossack house

Lovejoy Homestead

Beecher Hall

Dr. Richard Eell's House

Dr. Hiram Rutherford House

The Old Rock House

James T. Wheeler House

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]
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

• Index: Underground Railroad locations
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• The Underground Railroad Records

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. Missing or empty |title= (help)
8. https://www.daily-chronicle.com/articles/2008/03/16/news/local/news15.txt. Missing or empty |title= (help)
9. "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. Karnoutsos, Carmela. "Underground Railroad". Jersey City Past and Present. New Jersey City University. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
12. History, Saddler's Woods Conservation Association
13. Switala, William J. (2006), 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. 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. "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

External links

• Map of Underground Railroad locations
• Underground Railroad sites on waymarking.com. Includes many not included above.