• Source: 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 list of validated or authenticated Underground Railroad and Network to Freedom sites is sorted within state or province, by location.




Canada



The Act Against Slavery of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free on arrival in Upper Canada. A network of routes led from the United States to Upper and Lower Canada.




= Ontario

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Amherstburg Freedom Museum – Amherstburg. The museum uses historical artifacts, Black heritage exhibits, and video presentations to share the story of how Africans were forced into slavery and the made their way to Canada.
Fort Malden – Amherstburg One of the routes to Ontario was to cross Lake Erie from Sandusky, Ohio to Fort Malden. Another route to Fort Malden was traveling across the Detroit River into Canada and then across to Amherstburg. A number of fugitive slaves lived in the area and Isaac J. Rice established himself as a missionary, operating a school for black children.
Buxton National Historic Site and Elgin settlement – Chatham, Ontario The Elgin settlement was established by a Presbyterian minister, Reverend William King, with fifteen former slaved on November 28, 1849. King came from Ohio, where he inherited fourteen enslaved people from his father-in-law and acquired another and set them free. King intended the Elgin settlement to a refuge for runaway enslaved people. The Buxton Mission was established at the settlement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site and Dawn Settlement – Dresden. Rev. Josiah Henson, a former enslaved man who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad with his wife Nancy and their children, was a cofounder of the Dawn Settlement in 1841. Dawn Settlement was designed to be a community for black refugees, where children and adults could receive an education and develop skills so that they could prosper. They exported tobacco, grain, and black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain.
John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area – Essex. The Park Homestead was a station on the Underground Railroad.
John Freeman Walls Historic Site – Lakeshore. John Freeman Walls, left his enslavers in North Carolina and settled in Canada. The Refugee Home Society supplied the money to buy land and he built a cabin. Church services were held there before the Puce Baptist Church was built. It was also a terminal stop on the Underground Railroad. Walls and his family stayed in Canada after the American Civil War.
Queen's Bush – Mapleton. Beginning in 1820, African American pioneers settled in the open lands of Queen's Bush. More than 1,500 blacks set up farms and created a community with churches and Mount Pleasant and Mount Hope schools, which were taught by American missionaries.
St. Catharines – Harriet Tubman lived in St. Catharines and attended the Salem Chapel for ten years. After she freed herself from slavery, she helped other enslaved people reach freedom in Canada. The town was a final stop on the Underground Railroad for many people.
Sandwich First Baptist Church – Windsor. The church was built just over the border from the United States in Windsor, Ontario by blacks who came to Canada to live free. For its role in the lives of its congregants and as a sanctuary for fugitive slaves, it was designated a National Historic Site in 1999.




= Nova Scotia

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African-American people settled in Nova Scotia since 1749.

Birchtown National Historic Site – Birchtown. It was a settlement of black people from Colonial America, who served the British during the American Revolutionary War in exchange for their freedom. Birchtown was the largest community of free black people in British North America during the late 18th century.
Africville – Halifax. Black people settled in Africville beginning in 1848. Black residents did not have the same services as white people, like clean water and sewers, and lived on land that was not arable. Some were able to make a living for themselves and build a community with a Baptist church, a school, stores, and a post office. A plan was initiated to relocate families and raze the site of the town.




United States






= Colorado

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Barney L. Ford Building — Denver, associated with escaped slave Barney Ford, who became a quite successful businessman and led political action towards Black voting rights in Colorado. He used the Underground Railroad (UGRR) to flee slavery and supported UGRR activities.




= Connecticut

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Francis Gillette House — Bloomfield
Austin F. Williams Carriagehouse and House — Farmington. Built in the mid-19th century, the property was designated a National Historic Landmark for the role it played in the celebrated case of the Amistad Africans, and as a "station" on the Underground Railroad.
First Church of Christ, Congregational — Farmington The church was a hub of the Underground Railroad, and became involved in the celebrated case of the African slaves who revolted on the Spanish vessel La Amistad. When the Africans who had participated in the revolt were released in 1841, they came to Farmington.
Polly and William Wakeman House — Wilton. The Wakemans were among a group of abolitionists in Wilton who helped runaway slaves. Underneath their house was a tunnel that was accessed by a trap door. They took people on late-night trips to neighboring towns on the Underground Railroad.




= Delaware

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Camden Friends Meetinghouse — Camden Quaker meeting house (built in 1806) of Camden Monthly Meeting, several of whose members were active in the Underground Railroad, including John Hunn, who is buried in its cemetery.
John Dickinson Plantation — Dover
New Castle Court House — New Castle
Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse — Odessa
Corbit–Sharp House — Odessa
The Tilly Escape site, Gateway to Freedom: Harriet Tubman's Daring Route through Seaford — Seaford
Friends Meeting House — Wilmington
Thomas Garrett House — Wilmington




= District of Columbia

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Blanche K. Bruce House
Camp Greene and Contraband Camp
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
Leonard Grimes Property Site
Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
Pearl incident at 7th Street Dock




= Florida

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Negro Fort, also known as British Fort and Fort Gadsden — near Sumatra, Franklin County
Fort Mosé — St. John's County




= Georgia

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First African Baptist Church — Savannah
Dr. Robert Collins House - William and Ellen Craft Escape Site (NRHP site) — Macon




= Illinois

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Old Rock House — Alton
New Philadelphia Town Site — Barry
Quinn Chapel AME Church — Brooklyn
Lucius Read House — Byron
Galesburg Colony UGRR Freedom Station at Knox College — Galesburg
Beecher Hall, Illinois College — Jacksonville
Graue Mill — Oak Brook
Dr. Hiram Rutherford House and Office — Oakland
Owen Lovejoy House — Princeton
John Hossack House — Ottawa
Dr. Richard Eells House — Quincy
Maple Lane (Reverend Asa Turner House) – Quincy
Mission Institute Number One – Quincy
Mission Institute Number Two – Quincy
Oakland (Dr. David Nelson House) – Quincy
Blanchard Hall, Wheaton College — Wheaton




= Indiana

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Levi Coffin House — Fountain City
Bethel AME Church — Indianapolis
Eleutherian College Classroom and Chapel Building — Lancaster
Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House — Madison
Madison Historic District — Madison
Town Clock Church (now Second Baptist Church) — New Albany
Quinn House, within Old Richmond Historic District — Richmond
Phanuel Lutheran Church — Southeastern Fountain County




= Iowa

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First Congregational Church — Burlington
Horace Anthony House — Camanche
Reverend George B. Hitchcock House — Lewis vicinity
Henderson Lewelling House — Salem
Todd House — Tabor
Jordan House — West Des Moines




= Kansas

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Fort Scott National Historic Site — Bourbon County
John Brown Cabin — Osawatomie




= Maine

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Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Brunswick
Abyssinian Meeting House — Portland
Maple Grove Friends Church — Fort Fairfield
Private Home - 55 High St Brownsville, ME




= Maryland

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President Street Station — Baltimore
Harriet Tubman's birthplace — Dorchester County
Riley-Bolten House — North Bethesda
John Brown's Headquarters — Sample's Manor




= Massachusetts

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African American National Historic Site — Boston
William Lloyd Garrison House — Boston
Black Heritage Trail, including the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House — Boston
William Ingersoll Bowditch House — Brookline
Mount Auburn Cemetery — Cambridge
The Wayside — Concord
George Luther Stearns Estate — Medford
Nathan and Mary Johnson House — New Bedford
Jackson Homestead — Newton
Ross Farm — Northampton
Dorsey–Jones House — Northampton
Liberty Farm — Worcester




= Michigan

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Guy Beckley — Ann Arbor. Underground Railroad promoter and station master and anti-slavery lecturer. The Guy Beckley House is on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
Erastus and Sarah Hussey — Battle Creek
Second Baptist Church — Detroit
Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House — Schoolcraft
Wright Modlin — Williamsville, Cass County. His house was a railroad station, but he often traveled south to the Ohio River (a border between the free and slave states) or into Kentucky where he found people escaping slavery and brought them up to Cass County. He was so successful that it angered Kentuckian slaveholders, who instigated the Kentucky raid on Cass County in 1847. He was also a central figure in The South Bend Fugitive Slave case.




= Nebraska

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Mayhew Cabin — Nebraska City




= New Jersey

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Holden Hilton House — Jersey City
Thomas Vreeland Jackson and John Vreeland Jackson house — Jersey City
Mott House — Lawnside Borough
Red Maple Farm — Monmouth Junction
Grimes Homestead — Mountain Lakes
Rhoads Chapel — Saddlertown, Haddon Township
Bethel AME Church — Springtown
Mortonson-Van Leer Log Cabin — Swedesboro
Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church — Woolwich Township




= New York

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Edwin Weyburn Goodwin — Albany
Stephen and Harriet Myers House — Albany
Allegany County network: Baylies Bassett — Alfred and others (including Henry Crandall Home — Almond; William Sortore Farm — Belmont); Marcus Lucas Home — Corning; Thatcher Brothers — Hornell, McBurney House — Canisteo (now in town of Hornellsville); William Knight — Scio
Harriet Tubman House and Thompson AME Zion Church — Auburn
North Star Underground Railroad Museum — Ausable Chasm
Michigan Street Baptist Church — Buffalo
Cadiz, Franklinville area network: Merlin Mead House and others, including John Burlingame, Alfred Rice, Isaac Searle, and the owner of the Stagecoach Inn
McClew Farm at Murphy Orchards — Burt
St. James AME Zion Church — Ithaca
John Brown Farm State Historic Site — Lake Placid
Starr Clock Tinshop — Mexico
Abolitionist Place — New York City: Brooklyn. Abolitionist Place is a section of Duffield Street in downtown Brooklyn that used to be a center of anti-slavery and Underground Railroad activity. New York City was one of the busiest ports in the world in the 19th century. Some freedom seekers traveled aboard ships amongst cargo, like tobacco or cotton from the Southern United States and arrived in Brooklyn a few blocks away from Abolitionist Place. Underground Railroad conductors helped these freedom seekers, as well as people who traveled north on the Underground Railroad. They were provided needed shelter, like at the Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims; clothing; and food.
Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims — New York City: Brooklyn
Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center — Niagara Falls
Chappaqua Friends Meeting House - Chappaqua, New York
Buckout-Jones Building — Oswego
Edwin W. and Charlotte Clarke House — Oswego
Hamilton and Rhoda Littlefield House — Oswego
John B. and Lydia Edwards House — Oswego
John Jay Homestead - Bedford/Katonah
Orson Ames House — Mexico, Oswego County
Oswego Market House — Oswego
Oswego School District Public Library (presumably the Oswego City Library) — Oswego
Richardson-Bates House Museum — Oswego
Tudor E. Grant — Oswego
Gerrit Smith Estate and Land Office — Peterboro
Smithfield Community Center — Peterboro, formerly a church; first meeting of New York Anti-Slavery Society held there; houses National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum.
Samuel and Elizabeth Cuyler House Site — Pultneyville
Foster Memorial AME Zion Church — Tarrytown
Eber Pettit Home - Versailles
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church - Rochester, New York. Escaping enslaved people were hidden under the pulpit and in hollow pews. Frederick Douglass, Amy and Isaac Post, Jacob P. Morris, and other Rochester Underground Railroad organizers were associated with the site.




= North Carolina

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Guilford College Woods meeting place, Guilford College — Greensboro
Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island Network to Freedom site — Manteo, Outer Banks




= Ohio

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Col. William Hubbard House — Ashtabula
Captain Jonathan Stone House — Belpre
Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Cincinnati
House of Peter and Sarah M. Fossett — Cincinnati / Cumminsville
Samuel and Sally Wilson House — Cincinnati
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead — Greenville
Sawyer–Curtis House — Little Hocking
Mount Pleasant Historic District — Mt. Pleasant
Reuben Benedict House — Marengo
Spring Hill — Massillon
Wilson Bruce Evans House — Oberlin
John P. Parker House — Ripley
John Rankin House — Ripley
Daniel Howell Hise House — Salem
Rush R. Sloane House — Sandusky
George W. Adams House / Prospect Place — Trinway
Iberia — Washington Township, Morrow County
Putnam Historic District — Zanesville




= Pennsylvania

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Kaufman's Station — Boiling Springs
Oakdale — Chadds Ford
John Brown House — Chambersburg
Dobbin House — Gettysburg
Thaddeus Stevens Home and Law Office – Lancaster
Johnson House — Philadelphia
Hosanna Meeting House — Chester County
Liberty Bell, Independence National Historical Park — Philadelphia
White Horse Farm — Phoenixville
Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall — Plymouth Meeting
Bethel AME Zion Church — Reading
F. Julius LeMoyne House — Washington
William Goodrich House — York
Eusebius Barnard House — Pocopson
Van Leer Cabin — Tredyffrin




= Rhode Island

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Isaac Rice Homestead — Newport




= Tennessee

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Burkle Estate was possibly a station and is now Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum — Memphis
Hunt-Phelan House — Memphis




= Texas

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Matilda and Nathaniel Jackson
Silvia and John Webber




= Vermont

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Rowland E. Robinson House, Rokeby — Ferrisburgh




= Virgin Islands

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Annaberg Sugar Plantation and School — St. John




= Virginia

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Bruin's Slave Jail — Alexandria
Rochelle–Prince House / Nat Turner Historic District — Courtland
Moncure Conway House — Falmouth
Theodore Roosevelt Island — Rosslyn
Fort Monroe — Hampton




= West Virginia

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Z. D. Ramsdell House — Ceredo
Jefferson County Courthouse — Charles Town
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park — Harpers Ferry
Wheeling Hotel — Wheeling




= Wisconsin

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Milton House — Milton
Joshua Glover — Milwaukee
Lyman Goodnow — Waukesha. Conductor, led 16-year-old Caroline Quarlls, the first known freedom seeker along Wisconsin's Underground Railroad, from Wisconsin to Canada.




Other articles and references






= See also

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Index: Underground Railroad locations
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The Underground Railroad Records
Underground Railroad Bicycle Route




= References

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= Bibliography

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Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2008). The Underground Railroad : an encyclopedia of people, places, and operations. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-8093-8.




= External links

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Map of Underground Railroad locations
A Photographic Journey Along the Underground Railroad
American abolitionists

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