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The museum is located in the carriage house of the Chapin Mansion and focuses on the city's history. Exhibits include Fort St. Joseph, built by the French as a trading post in 1691, the Underground Railroad in southern Michigan, area railroads and artifacts of the Lakota people.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Michigan's Railroad System (PDF) (Map). Scale not given. Lansing: Michigan Department of Transportation
Harriet Tubman, c. 1868–1869, who was a significant figure in the history of the Underground Railroad. The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Cambridge recognizes her efforts to free enslaved people. President Street Station — Baltimore [27] Harriet Tubman's birthplace — Dorchester County [39] [40]
The Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House is a single-family home located at 613 East Cass Street in Schoolcraft, Michigan. The house is also known as the Underground Railway House, due to its use as a stop in the Underground Railroad. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]
Loren Andrus was born in 1816 in New York, and moved with his parents to Washington Township in 1828. [2] In 1837, when he was 21, Loren Andrus was taken on as an assistant engineer for the survey of the Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal.
Following upon legislation passed in 1990 for the National Park Service to perform a special resource study of the Underground Railroad, [215] in 1997, the 105th Congress introduced and subsequently passed H.R. 1635 – National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998, which President Bill Clinton signed into law that year. [216]
If you were paying attention in history class, you’ll recall the Underground Railroad wasn’t a railroad at all. Rather, it was a fluid network of locations where freedom seekers sought refuge ...
Note: Per consensus and convention, most route-map templates are used in a single article in order to separate their complex and fragile syntax from normal article wikitext. See these discussions , for more information. Information from Meints, Graydon (2005). Michigan Railroad Lines. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.