From the 1830s to the 1860s, John Rankin, a farmer, was the linchpin of Ripley’s Underground Railroad. Well before the Civil War began, the Ohio River separated North and South, in effect two ...

The Underground Railroad had many notable participants, including John Fairfield in Ohio, the son of a slaveholding family, who made many daring rescues, Levi Coffin, a Quaker who assisted more ...

This museum, which opened in 2004, sits along the banks of the Ohio River ... into the Cincinnati area when following the Underground Railroad. Today, the National Underground Railroad Freedom ...

LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - What would it take for ... which included the Underground Railroad. “I really like to learn about the history of where we live and the history of what people ...