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Ohio UGRR.Pdf HAMILTON AVENUE – ROAD TO FREEDOM 13. Jonathan Cable – A Presbyterian minister, his family fugitive slaves in a tool house and wooden shed attached to once lived north of 6011 Belmont Avenue. Levi Coffin his house. 1. Hall of Free Discussion site - The Hall was so named by wrote about the deeds of Cable, who procured clothing and 26. Mt. Healthy Christian Church – 7717 Harrison Avenue James Ludlow, son of Israel Ludlow (a Hamilton County gave slaves shelter in his house. He is seen in this – Founded by Pastor David S. Burnet, part of the Cincinnati abolitionist surveyor whose first home was built in photograph as the tall man in the back row. The man with Burnet family, this church was torn apart by the slavery Northside) who built it for the purpose of open discussion the top hat is Levi Coffin; they are with some of those they question. It expelled Aaron Lane for his abolitionist views of controversial topics. After the Lane Debates, some helped to escape. against the protests of other members and for six years the abolitionist seminary students taught classes here to blacks, 14. Samuel and Sally Wilson house – 1502 Aster Place – church stopped holding services. while others taught here and then moved on to Oberlin A staunch abolitionist family, the Wilsons moved to 27. Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon Scott – 7601 Hamilton College. Abolitionist speakers such as Rev. Lyman Beecher College Hill in 1849, purchasing land and a small log cabin Avenue – Built in 1840, this was a station for the and William Cary were popular. from Freeman G. Cary. The current Greek Revival house Underground Railroad. Scott was a Presbyterian minister 2. Freedom Grove, Mill Creek Restoration project - Trees was built around the cabin at that time. Their daughter, and professor who had taught at Miami University and planted here memorialize “where slaves would exit using Mary Jane, was an original teacher at the Ohio Female moved to Mt. Healthy, where he taught at Farmers’ College the Mill Creek as their guide.” Following a large waterway College and two of their sons attended Cary’s Academy. in College Hill. His daughter, Caroline, married Pres. would confuse any dogs that were following them as well Harriet Nesmith, Joseph Gardner, and Mary Jane Wilson Benjamin Harrison. Still existing are traces of rooms or as providing cover. Pyle all were very involved with the Underground Railroad tunnels in the basement. 3. Wesleyan Cemetery - Chartered in 1843, this was the and this house served as a station for at least four years. In 28. Anthony Nelson – In 1859 Nelson, a former Kentucky first integrated cemetery in the Cincinnati area. This 1892 Harriet wrote a letter to Professor Wilbur Siebert at slave who bought his freedom brought his family to Mt. cemetery contains the remains of abolitionists Zebulon Ohio State University detailing her family’s activities and Healthy. He purchased land from Gilbert LaBoiteaux, and Strong, John Van Zandt and Rev. Henry Hathaway of those of other College Hill residents’ participation. This built his house which became a station, his family helping Covington, Ky. Abolitionist Zebulon Strong had two house is one of only two in Cincinnati that has a National others on their way to Hamilton or Dayton. Rachel Nelson homes along Hamilton Avenue that were stops on the Historic Place listing specifically for the Underground was his granddaughter. Underground Railroad. John Van Zandt was caught in 1842 Railroad. The other is the Harriet Beecher Stowe house in 29. Dr. Alexander B. Luse house site - 3206 Compton Road transporting a wagonload of escaping slaves from Walnut Walnut Hills. Private residence. – Dr. Luse was one of the local physicians who would Hills to his home near Glendale, OH. He was defended by 15. Ohio Female College – Now demolished and the attend to the medical needs of the fugitives. They would Salmon P. Chase to the Supreme Court. Van Zandt died a Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center built on the stay with him until they were well enough to resume travel. pauper due to court fees and fines in 1847 before the trial site, Supreme Court Justice John McLean served as the first Another local doctor so involved was Dr. Reuben D. was over. It was one of Chase’s largest legal defeats. Van president of the Board of Trustees. Samuel F. Cary also Mussey Zandt was immortalized as the character John Von Trompe served on the board. Judge McLean was anti-slavery and 30. Charles Cheny site – Originally from Connecticut, in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Levi was a dissenting opinion in the infamous 1857 Dred Scottv. Cheny believed the climate in Mt. Healthy was perfect for Coffin in his Reminiscence relates the story of John Sanford Supreme Court decision. growing mulberry trees and cultivating silkworms. He Hatfield, Deacon at the Zion Baptist Church, who assisted 16. Jesse DeWitt Locker- 1210 Cedar Avenue – This is the founded the Mulberry Grove Silk Growing and Coffin in transporting a group of 28 escaping slaves from site where Jesse Locker’s home stood. Jesse Locker was a Manufacturing Company and stayed in the business for Cincinnati. Hatfield procured a coach and disguised the much loved lawyer, and a six term Cincinnati City seven years. During that time, he became friends with group as a funeral procession of free blacks on the way to councilman. He was president of the Hamilton County Bar Salmon P. Chase and other anti-slavery advocates. the Methodist (Wesleyan) Cemetery. Instead of going to Association for Negro Lawyers. Appointed by Pres. Cheney’s home became a station and he would be seen the cemetery, the group traveled past to College Hill. Along Eisenhower in 1953 to be the U.S. Ambassador to Liberia. driving a wagon with his son next to him and with fugitives the way a sick infant died and was buried in College Hill. Locker died in Monrovia in 1955. His public funeral was hidden in the wagon bed behind them. A descendent of The group made it to Canada. Rev. Henry Hathaway built the largest in the city’s history and he was the only person Cheney wrote to Prof. Wilbur Siebert about the his home, “Hathaway Hall,” on the banks of the Ohio River to lie in state at City Hall. Jesse’s father Rev, Laban S. recollections of Charles’s son Frank who often spoke of the in West Covington. Said to have been an important stop on Locker was the first black minister in Ohio to be ordained freedman Jim who would misdirect any pursuers as to the the Underground Railroad, a tunnel connected the house to in the Christian Church. He was the pastor of the Christian direction the wagon had taken. the Ohio River, where fugitive slaves would be rowed to Church of College Hill which stood at the corner of Cedar 31. Mt. Healthy Historical Society Museum – 1546 the Ohio side. Buried at Wesleyan are more than 600 Civil and Piqua Avenues. Nearby was College Hill’s Colored McMakin – Built originally as a community meeting house, War Veterans of both races. school which merged with the College Hill Public School the museum contains artifacts of early Mt. Healthy life, 4. Spring Grove Cemetery – Here are buried the noted in 1888. As you go further east on Cedar Avenue you will including slave manacles. Quakers, Levi and Catherine Coffin. Levi has been see small, wooden cottages which were built for the black 32. Mt. Pleasant Cemetery - The resting place of Jesse attributed with helping over 3,000 slaves escape to servants who worked for the wealthy of College Hill. This Locker. freedom. Known as “The President of the Underground was the center of the early black community which 33. Lane Homestead – Hamilton Avenue and Mill Road – Railroad,” he moved to Cincinnati in 1847 from Indiana, contained many free blacks and former slaves. Free black The Lane family were outspoken abolitionists and their opening a store which sold only items not produced by families were the primary group who helped escaping home was a station. Pioneer John Lane was a blacksmith slave labor. Salmon Portland Chase also buried here, slaves. Their names and deeds are lost to history. whose limestone workshop (1814) is still standing. His known as the “attorney general for fugitive slaves.” He 17. William Cary site/ Hodapp Funeral Home – 6041 sons, Aaron and Clark, were very active in the defended pro-bono those slaves that were recaptured and Hamilton Avenue – William Cary was the primary land Underground Railroad. Clark was successful in the the abolitionists that tried to free them. Chase served as owner of College Hill. An abolitionist and one of the blacksmithing trade and funded the Lane Library in Secretary of the Treasury under Pres. Lincoln and was a founders of the College Hill Presbyterian Church, Cary Lebanon. Private residence. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. built a saw mill and brick kiln on his property. His was the 5,6. Ravine to Freedom – On either side of Hamilton first brick home in College Hill and contained hiding Avenue lie deep ravines which provided deep shadow and places. His well-educated sons were responsible for Cary’s foliage. About the ravine in LaBoiteaux Woods Preserve, Academy, Farmer’s College and the Ohio Female College. Text and map provided by: Betty Ann Smiddy and Kathy the Underground Railroad Freedom Center has called this 18. John T. Crawford site – When Crawford died in 1880; Dahl. Information and photographs provided by: Betty Ann the “only documented and undeveloped Underground he left his estate “for the sole uses of an asylum and home Smiddy, College Hill Historical Society; Kathy Dahl, Park Railroad slave route” in the area.
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