Look at a map, and it becomes evident how the Finger Lakes got their name. These slender bodies of water look like fingers of blue splayed across the terrain of central New York, a state with lots of ...

The Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative will be dedicating two of Ironton's historic sites in Ironton that were part of the Underground Railroad. On Wednesday at 10 a.m., a marker will ...

From 1850 to 1860, Tubman was estimated to have freed at least 70 slaves by taking them north to Maryland from the South via the Underground Railroad ... Having made the cut, she started ...

The election of the first U.S. pope over the global Catholic Church puts his hometown on the map, drawing pilgrims ... that became part of the Underground Railroad. Dolton’s first post office ...

Lovelace’s mother made sure she had access to some of the brightest minds ... The unstoppable Harriet Tubman is well-known to anyone who has heard the amazing tale of the Underground Railroad. Tubman, ...

Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives TUNNELS OF TIME: Shown above is 1957 map of the tunnel system below Bowdoin ... allegedly linked to Maine’s portion of the Underground Railroad, parts of ...

To enforce his temperance agenda, Boone also outlined his vision for a reorganized, professionalized police force made up entirely ... The decade between 1850 and 1860 was one of explosive growth ...

This 1860-75 photo made available by the Library of Congress shows Harriet Tubman. (Harvey B. Lindsley/Library of Congress via AP) The original opening paragraph read: “The Underground Railroad ...

Map of the Underground Railroad (Courtesy of the University of Arkansas/Nelson ... Dodging slave patrols in northern Arkansas and Missouri, he soon made it to free territory. From there, he rode even ...

Several national preservation programs are documenting safe houses and other sites associated with the Underground Railroad. This 1860-75 photo made available by the Library of Congress shows ...

She had been digging at the site where Harriet Tubman, the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad ... about 1850 and 1860, using stealth and disguise, Tubman made 13 trips home, spiriting ...