How the Erie Canal helped Underground Railroad freedom seekers escape into upstate NY and Canada. Explore the Erie Canal's role as a corridor of resistance for anti-slavery activism, the Second ...

What many people don’t know about is the significance of Bucks County’s connection to the Underground Railroad ... would use to find their way to the canal and continue on their journey.

"My family is from Railroad Shop Colored Addition out of Miami and we were evicted from our property," she said. "My grandmother lived in the four-by-six area of the first section and they just ...

Johnson met a guy in Miami ... Railroad was part of the Florida East Coast Railway, owned by Standard Oil partner Henry Flagler. The extension to Key West — inspired by plans for the Panama ...

Sandusky was a major terminal on the Underground Railroad because of its Lake Erie location and the number of railroad lines that went through the city. The Follet House Museum, operated by the ...

To understand the significance of the Miami & Erie Canal and the hydraulic canal that followed, you just have to look at Middletown’s 1820 census. At the time there were 312 people living in ...

"When completed, the Ohio & Erie Canal stretched more than 300 miles through nearly 150 lift locks and connected the cities of Cleveland and Portsmouth," notes the posting. "The Miami & Erie Canal ...

ST. MARYS — The annual April Showers hike along the Miami Erie Canal will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at 16586 County Road 66A near St. Marys, according to a press release. The St ...