Although the term
Underground Railroad
implies a
progression of
well-ordered routes
leading north, it
was actually a broad
movement, with
people of varied
ethnic and religious
affiliation involved
in spontaneous and
organized activities
to assist enslaved
African Americans in
their efforts to
achieve freedom.
Actual routes, which
led to Canada, Mexico
and the Caribbean,
are difficult to
trace due to the
secrecy associated
with this illegal
activity.
- Guy Washington
National Park Service
Network to Freedom

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUMS/EXHIBITS
 The Carnegie Center in New Albany, IN. “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad in the Indiana and Kentucky Borderland”

 Dunkirk Historical Museum in Dunkirk, NY

Erie County Historical Society in Erie, PA chronicles early rural life, from 1822 to the present.

Grey Roots Heritage & Visitor’s Centre in Ontario Canada, the award winning Black history exhibit, “From Slavery to Freedom”, traces the history of Black settlement throughout Grey County, Ontario, Canada

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT. Take a virtual tour to learn about how Stowe changed the course of history.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe Museum Washington, KY This museum was home to the site wherein Stowe saw her first slave auction as a child.

The Kelton House Museum & Garden in Columbus, OH has an experiential Underground Railroad exhibit. Fernanado and Sohpia Kelton were abolitionists who took in an ill runaway slave girl whom they found hiding with her sister in the bushes outside their home. The older sister went on to Canada but Martha Hartway stayed. Today  you can watch area high schools perform the play, “Martha’s Journey” as part of the museum’s learning experience.

The King Art Complex in Columbus, OH Feel what the long journey to the New World was like for slaves in the interactive permanent exhibit “Cargo: The Middle Passage,” which looks, sounds and feels like a slave ship.

 National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH devotes three pavilions which celebrate courage, cooperation and perseverance.

 Oberlin Heritage Center in Oberlin, OH is the community historical society and historic preservation organization.

St. Catharines Museum and Welland Canal Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario Canada

Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center Pennsylvania's largest history museum in Pittsburgh, PA

Soldiers and Sailors Military Museum and Memorial

Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, OH documents the Underground Railroad in the Ohio valley

William Hubbard House Underground Railroad Museum in Ashtabula, OH along Ashtabula Harbor.

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMS

African American Museum in Philadelphia, PA

Association of African American Museums has links to museums nation wide

Kentucky Center for African American Heritage in Louisville, KY    

National African-American Archives and Museum in Mobile, AL

National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, OH

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore, MD

Sheffield’s Black Cultural Museum in Collingwood, Ontario Canada. (705)- 445-0201

CIVIL RIGHTS

• The Birmingham Pledge Foundation
• The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
• NAACP
• Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail and Lowndes County Interpretive Center  A NPS facility in Selma, AL (334) 877-1983
• Rosa Parks Library and Museum on TROY Campus, Montgomery, AL
• National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN

 indicates location is on the Underground Railroad Bicycle Route

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