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Underground Railroad promoter and station master and anti-slavery lecturer. The Guy Beckley House is on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. [43] Erastus and Sarah Hussey — Battle Creek [44] Second Baptist Church — Detroit [17] Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House — Schoolcraft [17] Wright Modlin — Williamsville, Cass County.
Romulus was a stop of the Underground Railroad in the 1800s when slaves fled the inhumane conditions of plantations in the South for the free states of the North. There were two stops in Romulus and those structures are still intact to this day. Samuel Kingsley Home is a famous historic landmark in Romulus.
Thomas Downing was a free Black man in New York and operated his Oyster restaurant as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Freedom seekers (runaway slaves) escaping slavery and seeking freedom hid in the basement of Downing's restaurant. [60] Enslaved people helped freedom seekers escape from slavery.
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Feb. 3—LEWISBURG — A recognized stop on the Underground Railroad in Union County is the subject of ongoing projects at Bucknell University. The former carriage house beside the Bliss-McClure ...
Soon the Hussey home had become one of the main stations on the Underground Railroad. [4] [5] Their station was located along the Central Michigan Route that had stops every 15 miles between Cass County and Detroit, Michigan.
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]
Officials recently broke ground on a project that will preserve the Mifflin farmstead — a stop on the Underground Railroad — near the Susquehanna River in eastern York County.