As we celebrate Juneteenth, we're retracing history in modern-day Kennett Square. What many people don’t know is that the town was a crucial stop for freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. CBS ...

History textbooks and popular media generally depict the Underground Railroad as an arduous overland ... by President George Washington. Though Pennsylvania had passed a “gradual abolition ...

Central Pennsylvania also played a role in the Underground Railroad. Some of its routes passed through Blair and Bedford Counties. “I think it should be something that attracts people to Bedford ...

The transportation network for escaped slaves during the mid-1800s passed right through Delaware, a 95-mile trail spanning ...

That early witness shaped a beacon whose name stretched from Pennsylvania to Delaware ... s homestead had become a lantern on the Underground Railroad. Wagons crept up its dirt lane after dark ...

It was a network of secret routes and safe houses that ... Tonight, we're putting the Underground Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in focus. Joining me now is Mark Stewart, a member of the ...

the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. “Think of your journey here tonight. It’s a little drizzly, a little dark out there,” Thomas, president of the Whitehall Borough Historical Society ...

A Pennsylvania building believed to have once been an Underground Railroad ... the Underground Railroad was a network of safe houses, stations, and routes that helped enslaved people avoid capture.

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission ... slaves may have been guided to Ford Station along the Underground Railroad route from Crawford County operated by abolitionist John Brown ...

William Still Public domain via Wikimedia Commons At this point, Eliza Bias suggested Freedman go to the local Pennsylvania ... An 1898 map of Underground Railroad routes to Canada Public domain ...