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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...