The Underground ... Railroad," after the then emerging steam railroads. The system even used terms used in railroading: the homes and businesses where fugitives would rest and eat were called ...

After languishing for years of little use the Knoxville railroad stations are having a rebirth. The Southern Depot Our region was settled but did not really boom until the Civil War. Following that ...

Iowa played a vital role in the Underground Railroad, serving as a crucial sanctuary for enslaved people seeking freedom from the oppressive South. The state’s geography, with its rivers and wooded ...

William Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario. Underground Railroad ...

The Underground railroad was actually a series of houses that stretched from the Southern states to Canada ... and homes reputed to be stations. In the early twentieth century Berkshire Hills Monthly ...

according to a history from the La Grange Railroad Museum and Learning Center. Wood-burning locomotives later replaced the horses. Lois Todd’s print, “Southern Depot,” of Lexington’s ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the ... If a Conductor was caught helping runaways in a Southern slave state, the consequences ...

The Ridge Historical Society, 10621 S. Seeley Ave., will host Dr. Larry McClellan, emeritus professor of sociology and ...

Southern Pacific Railroad station in Turlock, circa 1910. Two men wait under a tree, next to the water pump at the end of the station building. The sign identifying the stations location as ...

The Underground ... of connecting "stations" along the route but few details of their immediate area. Escaped slaves would pass from one way station to the next, steadily making their way north. The ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network ... been illegal since the end of the 1700s. Southern slave-owners tried to discourage ...