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 ...

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 ...

Ohio — home to more than 3,000 miles of the Underground Railroad — was a prolific partner prior to and during the Civil War in guiding freedom seekers to Canada, where so many sought the ...

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 Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more ...

Ohio has more sites in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program than any other state, and a new initiative in southern Ohio is playing a key role in adding even more.

September is International Underground Railroad Month, and local historians have planned several events. On Sept. 14-15, the Ohio History Connection open doors event includes eight museums in ...