An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

The Susquehanna Valley played a pivotal role in the fight for freedom for hundreds of slaves, but an important piece of that ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped ... The fugitives would also travel by train and boat -- conveyances that sometimes had to be paid for. Money was also needed to ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

Racine area residents and visitors can learn more in the This Train Is Bound For Glory exhibit at RHM. People involved in the Underground Railroad would signal a farm or home was safe any way they ...

After finding artifacts inside the church, members discovered it was a safehouse stop on the Underground Railroad. During the walk, the community got a chance to step inside the church and learn ...

NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WDRB) — A historic church in southern Indiana, once a refuge for people seeking freedom through the Underground Railroad, is working to preserve its history. Second Baptist ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network ... be sent to the Southern states aboard a train scheduled to pass through Chatham, a ...