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2018 National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Listing Members listed in red are part of the National Park Service (NPS) Alabama Edward T. Sheldon Burial Site at Mobile Evergreen Cemetery Wallace Turnage Historic Marker Connecticut Arizona Hartford Tempe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Passage on the UGRR: A Photographic New London Journey New London Custom House Arkansas Delaware Bluff City Camden Poison Spring Battle Site Camden Friends Meeting House Helena-West Helena Dover Civil War Helena Tour Delaware Public Archives Freedom Park Delaware State House Pine Bluff John Dickinson Plantation Battle of Pine Bluff Audio Tour Star Hill Historical Society Museum New Castle California New Castle Court House Napa Odessa Mary Ellen Pleasant Burial Site Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House Riverside and Cemetery Footsteps to Freedom Study Tour Corbit-Sharp House Sacramento Seaford California State Library Tilly Escape Site, Gateway to Freedom: San Francisco Harriet Tubman's Daring Route through Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Seaford, DE Land Jazz Oratorio Wilmington Meet Mary Pleasant/Oh Freedom Historical Society of Delaware Saratoga Long Road to Freedom: The Mary A. Brown Burial Site Underground Railroad in Delaware Sonora Rocks- Fort Christina State Park Old Tuolumne County Courthouse Thomas Garrett House Site Tubman Garrett Riverfront Park and Colorado Market Street Bridge Colorado Springs Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse and Cemetery District of Columbia Fort Mose: Flight to Freedom: Annual African American Civil War Memorial Living History Program (NPS, National Mall and Memorial Park) Fort Mose: Last Saturday Living History Asbury United Methodist Church Program Blanche K. Bruce Burial Site Tallahassee Blanche K. Bruce House Southeast Archeological Center Camp Greene and Contraband Camp (NPS, George Washington Memorial Georgia Parkway) Atlanta Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Auburn Avenue Research Library (NPS) Mattie, Johnny and Smooth White From Slavery to Freedom Stones Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Mattie, Johnny and Smooth White Research Center Stones: Part II John Little Farm Site Mattie, Johnny and Smooth White Leonard Grimes Property Site Stones: Part III Mary Ann Shadd Cary House Macon Mt. Pleasant Plains Cemetery at Walter Dr. Robert Collins House: William and Pierce Park Ellen Craft Escape Site Old City Hall Morrow Pearl Affair Site National Archives Southeast Region PEN OR PENCIL: Writing A New History Savannah Slavery and the Underground Railroad Fort Pulaski National Monument (NPS) with a Focus on the Nation's Capital Hawaii (NPS, President’s Park) Honolulu Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Anthony D. Allen Site Library William Boyd, John Dean, David A. Hall, Illinois and Hannibal Hamlin Burial Sites at Barry Congressional Cemetery New Philadelphia Town Site Brooklyn Florida Quinn Chapel AME Church Bradenton Byron Angola Maroon Community Lucius Read House Family Heritage Museum Crete Eastpoint Crete Cemetery and Crete Negro Fort Congregational Church Homestead Elgin Fort Jefferson National Monument (NPS, Newsome Park Dry Tortugas National Park) Key Biscayne Project 2-3-1 Two Boxcars, Three Blocks, One City: A Story of Elgin's African Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park American Heritage St Augustine Galesburg Fort Mose Galesburg Colony UGRR Freedom Station Fort Mose: Battle of Bloody Mose at Knox College Anniversary Commemoration Godfrey 2 Camp Warren Levis Greensburg Rocky Fork Caroline Escape Marker Jacksonville Decatur County Court House Congregational Church, United Church of Indianapolis Christ • Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Gillette House Church Illinois College-Beecher Hall (Chapel) and • Indiana Freedom Trails Educational and the site of the College Building (1832- Research Program 1852) • Underground Railroad Initiative, Junction Department of Natural Resources, Old Slave House Division of Historic Preservation and Lockport Archaeology Illinois & Michigan Canal Headquarters Jeffersonville Lombard Hannah Toliver Historical Marker Sheldon Peck House Lynn Oakland Union Literary Institute Dr. Hiram Rutherford House Madison Peoria Chapman Harris House Pettengill House Dr. Samuel Tibbets House Princeton Georgetown Neighborhood in Madison, Owen Lovejoy House Indiana Quincy Historic Eleutherian College Dr. Richard Eells House Isaiah Walton House Site Springfield John Gill and Martha Wilson Craven Jameson Jenkins Lot (NPS, Lincoln Home Home National Historic Site) Lyman Hoyt House Tamaroa Tibbets House Kimzey Crossing/Locust Hill New Albany Wheaton Carnegie Center for Art and History Blanchard Hall, Wheaton College Underground Railroad in Floyd County, (formerly known as College Building or Indiana Main Hall c. 1853-1926) North Vernon Underground Railroad in Illinois William and Margaret Hicklin House Seymour Indiana Seymour Train Station Bristol Graves et al. State of Indiana Historical Iowa Marker Bedford Columbus John "Jack" Howe Burial Site at Bedford Freedom is My Home City Cemetery Corydon Burlington Oswell Wright Historic Marker Aspen Grove Cemetery Crawfordsville Edwin James Burial Site at Rock Springs Speed Cabin Cemetery Speed Cabin Historical Marker J.H.B. Armstrong House Fountain City Marion Hall Site Levi Coffin House State Historic Site William Salter House Cincinnati 3 Davenport John E. Stewart Property Oakdale Memorial Gardens Joseph Gardner Cabin Site Denmark Underground Railroad in Douglas Denmark Congregational Church County, Kansas Trowbridge House Watkins Community Museum of History Des Moines Leavenworth Shattering Silence Monument for the In Planters Hotel Site re Ralph Supreme Court Case of Iowa Overbrook Grinnell Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum Josiah B. Grinnell Burial Site at Topeka Hazelwood Cemetery Constitution Hall--Topeka Lewis John and Mary Ritchie House Hitchcock House John Armstrong House Nishnabotna Ferry House Owens House Newton Wabaunsee Wittemberg Church and Cemetery Wabaunsee Cemetery Percival Wamego Ira Blanchard House and Cemetery Captain William Mitchell Farm Red Oak Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie William Wallace Merritt, Sr. Burial Site at Evergreen Cemetery Kentucky Salem Augusta Lewelling-Gibbs House Fee Land: The Story of Juliet Miles Tabor White Hall Tabor Cemetery Bedford Todd House Henry Bibb Escapes from Gatewood West Des Moines Plantation James C. Jordan House Burlington Winterset Boone County Public Library, Local Winterset Jail History Department The Underground Railroad in Boone Kansas County KY Bus Tour Douglas County La Grange Henry Hiatt House Site, Twin Mound J.C. Barnett Library and Archives Fort Scott Louisville Fort Scott National Historic Site (NPS) Harriet Tubman and the UGRR: Art of Harveyville Mark Priest Henry and Ann Harvey Farm Long Walk: Slavery to Freedom Kansas City Lucy Higgs Nichols: Civil War Nurse Honor Our Ancestors: the Freedom Nicholasville Seekers of Old Quindaro Exhibit Camp Nelson National Monument Quindaro Ruins Lawrence Louisiana African American Quilt Museum and Donaldsonville Textile Academy (Marla Quilts, Inc.) River Road African American Museum Dr. John Doy House (archeological ruins) and Gallery Grover Barn Natchitoches 4 Cammie G. Henry Research Center Pritchett Meredith Farm: Escapes of Robeline Thomas Elliot, Denard Hughes, and John Los Adaes Wesley Hughes Staplefort Farm: Bob Manokey Escape Maine Site Brunswick Chesapeake City Harriet Beecher Stowe House Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Heuston Burying Ground Davidsonville Portland Roedown Farm Abyssinian Meeting House Denton Caroline County Courthouse and Jail Maryland Choptank River Annapolis Denton Steamboat Wharf Site, Choptank Banneker-Douglass Museum River Maryland State Archives Joseph Cornish Escape from Gilpin's Maryland State House Point Baltimore Richard Potter Home Site Dugan's Wharf Site: Tilly's Escape Richard Potter Rescue Celebration Site Frederick Douglass Freedom and East New Market Heritage Trail & Tour Harriet Tubman Conference Mount Clare Isaac Henry Wright, Sr., Farm Site/Escape President Street Station of 4 Men with Harriet Reddy Gray Burial Site, Loudon Park Reverend Samuel Green and the Original National Cemetery Colored People's Methodist Episcopal Reginald F. Lewis Museum Church Underground Railroad: Maryland's Easton Network to Freedom Frederick Douglass Driving Tour of Talbot Bel Air County Hays-Heighe House: Sam Archer Escape Ellicott City Benedict Howard County Courthouse (1840-1842) Camp Stanton, USCT Howard County Courthouse (1843) Bowie Howard County Historical Society Belair Mansion Howard County Jail Northampton Slave Quarters and Fairplay Archaeological Park Rockland Cambridge Fort Washington Adventures of Harriet Tubman Mouth of Swan Creek Escape Site Buttons Creek: Jane Kane Escape Site Frederick Dorchester County Courthouse Best Farm/L'Hermitage (NPS, Monocacy Experience Harriet Tubman by Land National Battlefield) Experience Harriet Tubman by Sea Glenn Dale Experience Harriet Tubman by Sea II Marietta House Finding a Way to Freedom Driving Tour Hagerstown Jacob Jackson Home Site (NPS, Harriet Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (NPS) Tubman Underground Railroad National Ferry Hill Plantation (NPS, C&O Canal Monument) National Historic Park) Long Wharf at Cambridge Hollywood 5 Sotterley Scotland La Plata Point Lookout State Park Southern Maryland Studies Center Silver Spring Largo William
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