I keep telling school children
to talk their teachers into a nearby field trip to one of the
many Underground Railroad sites and museums. There are so many
because Ohio has preserved a great deal of its UGRR history.
Tomorrow Terry and I will be in Ashtabula. I get to revisit
The Hubbard House a restored home of another abolition family.
Restored by a Hubbard descendant, Tim Hubbard.
What Underground Railroad sites
are near you? Which have you visited? I cannot even begin to
choose my favorite and there are so many I still want to see.
Did you know that Ohio had more UGRR trails, sites and conductors
than almost all of the free states put together? Wilber Siebert
documented a map of 1540. You can buy copies of his map at many
historical museums or get a copy of his book The Underground
Railroad at your library, and his map is in the back of the
book.
Check out
the sites highlighted in my book IN THEIR PATH a Grandmother’s
519 Underground Railroad Mile Walk. My co-author Fran Stewart
has researched and given details of sites in the different Ohio
counties I walked across. It makes our book a good guide for
families’ visits and for school field trips
