Underground Railroad Links

The following links will take you to sites where you can find more information about the Underground Railroad.  Some of them include links to additional sites.  Many of them contain the latest information about the ongoing research being conducted by researchers around the country, and some include information about conferences and tours being offered.  If you’d like to be linked here or you know of a site you believe should be listed, please contact Tom Calarco.

Canada

http://www.isp.msu.edu/mcsrt/resources/ugrr/index.htm -- CANADIAN STUDIES RESOURCES: Underground Railroad Refugees in Canada

http://www.buxtonmuseum.com/index.htm -- Buxton Historic Site

http://www.uncletomscabin.org/heritage.htm -- Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/freedom/index.html -- Ottawa reporter Chris Lackner’s 2006 trek of discovery along the Underground Railroad

Connecticut

http://www.ctfreedomtrail.com/site/urailroad.html -- Connecticut UGRR 

Delaware

http://www.russpickett.com/history/undergrd.htm -- Delaware UGRR 

Illinois

http://www.dekalbcounty-il.com/ugrr.html -- DeKalb County, IL UGRR

http://www.knox.edu/x10628.xml -- Galesburg, IL UGRR

http://www.eiu.edu/~edtech/project_ex/talmant/final1.htm -- UGRR in Illinois

http://www.illinoishistory.com/ugrr.html -- UGRR in Illinois

Indiana

http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/ugrr/buryme6.html -- The UGRR in Indiana

http://www.eleutherian.us/ -- Eleutherian College, historic college recently rescued from oblivion that tells a unique story about the establishment of an oasis for freedom in southern Indiana

http://www.waynet.org/nonprofit/coffin.htm -- Levi Coffin House, the home for more than 20 years of the Underground Railroad’s most well-known conductor

Maryland

http://www.mdslavery.net/ -- Maryland UGRR

http://pathways.thinkport.org/about/ -- Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad

Michigan

http://havilands.org/HavilandsCom/Biographies/LauraSmithHaviland/ -- Laura Haviland site

New York

http://www.cityofelmira.net/history/underground_railroad.html -- Elmira UGRR

http://www.oswego.edu/ugrr/contents.html -- Oswego UGRR

http://www.pacny.net/freedom_trail/ -- Onondaga County UGRR

http://www.ugrworkshop.com/ -- Albany, NY UGRR

http://warsawhistory.org/tours/tour2.html -- Warsaw, NY abolitionist tour

http://www.freedomtrail.org/home.htm -- Forging the Freedom Trail site, regional group that features a traveling exhibit about the Underground Railroad in New York State and that sponsors statewide events

www.farmingtonmeetinghouse.blogspot.com -- site featuring the 1816 Farmington, NY, Quaker meetinghouse, which is part of the National Parks Service’s Network to Freedom 

http://www.co.cayuga.ny.us/history/ugrr/report/index.html  -- "Uncovering the Freedom Trail in Auburn and Cayuga County" (Auburn was where Harriet Tubman eventually settled and lived out her life)

http://www.sca.peterboro.org/ t-- site of the Smithfield Community Association in Peterboro, NY, whose primary focus is preserving the history and memory of one the greatest of all abolitionists, Gerrit Smith.

http://www.madisontourism.com/ -- Go to Heritage Trails and Freedom Trails links to download the Guidebook to the Madison County Freedom Trail, which includes 16 sites in the county. 

Ohio

http://www.ohioundergroundrailroad.org/ -- Friends of Freedom Society, the Ohio Underground Railroad Association

http://www.hudson.lib.oh.us/Hudson%20Website/Archives/Archives/Underground%20Railroad/ugrr.html -- Hudson, OH Historical Society list of UGRR sites

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9580/ugrr.html -- Site with detailed information about the UGRR in eastern Ohio

http://www.angelfire.com/oh/chillicothe/ugrr.html -- Site about the UGRR in southern Ohio

Pennsylvania

http://www.undergroundrr.com/foundation/resources.htm -  Abolitionist Links / Underground Railroad links page of The William Still Underground Railroad Foundation Inc.

http://www.johnsonhouse.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid=1 – Johnson House in Philadelphia

http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/yorkugrr/york_ugrr.htm -- York County, PA UGRR

http://www.afrolumens.org/ugrr/ -- Historian Chris Densmore’s site on Afro-American history in central PA, with the latest news about research, conferences, and UGRR events.

http://www.undergroundrr.kennett.net/ -- Kennett Square UGRR site, includes information about tours

Harriet Tubman Impersonator

http://www.aflyinggeese.com -- site of nationally-known performing artist, Melissa Waddy-Thibodeaux of Houston, TX, a descendant of a Texas slave. Her one woman show, “The Resurrection of Harriet Tubman in Escape to Freedom." brings to life the story of Harriet Tubman.

Fugitive Slaves

http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/author/ -- North American Slave Narratives published by the University of North Carolina.  These narratives, many of which have not been widely published, provide a revealing insight into the struggles of runaway slaves, both during their flight to freedom, and afterwards when they found their struggle for equality and justice was to continue. 

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