Underground Railroad News

PARADE PARTICIPANTS SOUGHT: The Trumbull African-American Achievers Association is planning for its festival to be held June 1 to 3 in downtown Warren.

Todd Mildfelt, an author and teacher for Greenbush Unified School District 609, will present "Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier" at 7 p.m. June 1 at The Little Red Barn, 410 Liberty in Oskaloosa, according to a news release.

For each slave who traveled through Delaware via the Underground Railroad seeking freedom, as many as three free blacks were kidnapped and sold back into slavery.

Four elementary schools in Richmond could close under a new rezoning plan presented Monday night.

The importance of quilts in guiding escaped slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad is the subject of a 7 p.m. May 23 presentation at the Berea Historical Society.

Due to the generosity of the Saginaw County community and the commitment of the letter carriers at the postal service, many pantries are full today.

Two local building's The Town of Oyster Bay voted Tuesday to grant landmark status to Jericho's historic Maine Maid Inn, once used as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Stacey Bonine and Collette Konkle's fourth-grade class from Angling Road Elementary in Portage will portray characters from the Underground Railroad at the Bonine House, Penn Road and M-60, from 10:30 a.m. to noon Tuesday.

In a genre inundated with supernatural - Clarksburg resident Judith Plaxton explored the Underground Railway and the area's black history through the stories of Alicia and Flower in her young adult book Morning Star.

Gerrit Smith's barn is not for sale this year, either, but in their continuing effort to restore and interpret the estate, its 19th century abolition owner and the Underground Railroad, the Stewards for the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark are holding a third annual sale at the barn Saturday, May 26, at 8 a.m. Donations of quality ... (more)

In 1862, the United States was in the second year of its Civil War, and Peterboro citizens prepared for service in that war.

In March, the broadcast station began airing a series entitled Finding Your Roots, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a noted historian and award-winning researcher of black history.

Stacey Bonine Collette Konkle's grade 4 class from Angling Road Elementary in Portage will portray characters from the Underground Railroad at the Bonine House, Penn Road and M-60, from 10:30 a.m. to noon May 22.

Aureliano Adame, Jr., builds a porch on the Lathrop House, which is linked to the Underground Railroad.

Underground Railroad: The Underground Railroad is a series of people, farmhouses, river crossings and church basements where runaway slaves found help on their way to freedom in Canada.

Henry Robert Burke, 72, well known Underground Railroad historian and author of Marietta, Ohio, died the morning of May 5, 2012, at Marietta Memorial Hospital.

Longtime local historian and author Henry Burke, best known for his work on the Underground Railroad and its history in the Mid-Ohio Valley, died Saturday.Funeral arrangements are being handled by Leavitt Funeral Home in Belpre and will be announced at a later time.Burke, 72, of Marietta, worked for many years on historical research in the Mid-Ohio ... (more)

An 11-year-old Carrollton student researching a project on the Underground Railroad helped kick off the 40th opening of the Salem Historical Society Museum on Sunday.

Toby had issues. The 4-year-old chow's owners had dispatched him to the municipal shelter in Virginia's King George County for being aggressive with their children.

Lawnside historian Clarence Still Jr., 83, a member of one of South Jersey's best-known African American families, died Friday, May 4, after a long illness.