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Putnam Historic District, located in Zanesville, Ohio, was an important center of Underground Railroad traffic and home to a number of abolitionists. The district, with private residences and other key buildings important in the fight against slavery, lies between the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, Van Buren Street, and Muskingum River.
They exported tobacco, grain, and black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. [8] John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area – Essex. The Park Homestead was a station on the Underground Railroad. [9] [10] John Freeman Walls Historic Site – Lakeshore.
He directed construction of the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad. His land holdings totaled 14,500 acres (59 km 2) with the Prospect Place Mansion in the center of his plantation. G. W. Adams was an important figure in Ohio politics, the Underground Railroad and regional development of the southeastern Ohio area.
1938. Toledo and Ohio Central Railway. Electric railways. Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railroad. Akron and Cuyahoga Falls Rapid Transit Company. Blissfield Railroad. Canton and Massillon Electric Railway. Cincinnati, Dayton and Toledo Traction. Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway.
v. t. e. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and from there to Canada. [1] The network, primarily the work of free African Americans (and some whites as well ...
John Rankin (February 5, 1793 – March 18, 1886) was an American Presbyterian minister, educator and abolitionist. Upon moving to Ripley, Ohio, in 1822, he became known as one of Ohio 's first and most active "conductors" on the Underground Railroad. Prominent pre-Civil War abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Weld, Henry Ward ...
Hazlett was born in Zanesville, Ohio, to Robert Hazlett and Lucy Welles Reed. Hazlett's parents were abolitionists and supporters of the Underground Railroad in central Ohio. After briefly attending Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, he was accepted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. During his first year at the ...
Zanesville, Ohio. / 39.95944°N 82.01333°W / 39.95944; -82.01333. Zanesville is a city in and the county seat of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. [4] Located at the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum rivers, the city is approximately 52 miles (84 km) east of Columbus and had a population of 24,765 as of the 2020 census, down ...