Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad ... border of Pennsylvania, for example ...

Officials recently broke ground on a project that will preserve the Mifflin farmstead — a stop on the Underground Railroad — ...

The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the final piece of the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal. “The Portage” opened in 1834, marking the first time that there was one, direct route between ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

An estimated 100,000 slaves sought freedom in the 1800s through a network of supporters and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad, according to the National Underground Railroad Freedom ...

AUSTINTOWN — If you live anywhere in the Mahoning Valley, chances are great that you’re at or very near a route that was once part of the Underground Railroad. “After 1850, Canada becomes ...

The National Park Service has added 14 new listings in 11 states to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom ...

The Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative has reached a significant milestone in its mission to document the region's Underground Railroad history, with the first three of twenty-seven ...

In Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad, host Anthony Morgan follows an excavation at Heritage Park, a remarkable site in Niagara Falls that was home to the Cataract House, an upscale hotel ...

Fort Sumter has been added to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, according to the National Park Service.

BERKELEY, Calif. - Mexodus is what is described as a live-loop musical about the underground railroad that led south to Mexico. Now on the stage at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, this two-man ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...