“Ohio was very important to the success of the Underground Railroad,” said Warren Van Tine, ... it notes “every second old house had been a station on the Underground Railroad.” ...

The Butterworth Station, as it came to be known, is long gone, but across a field nestled within a terraced hillside, lies a station of a different kind, a station on the Underground Railroad.

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 ...

This illustration from the 1888 book "The Story of Ohio," by Alexander Black shows a stop on the Underground Railroad. Before the Civil War, thousands of people escaped slavery by traveling north ...

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 ...

BELPRE — A home in Belpre was a station on the Underground Railroad. Crossing the Ohio River in the dead of night with a conductor leading the way, many slaves made their way into Ohio and a ...

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 ...

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 ...