The Underground ... Railroad," after the then emerging steam railroads. The system even used terms used in railroading: the homes and businesses where fugitives would rest and eat were called ...

Soon after we located at Newport, I found that we were on a line of the U.G.R.R. [Underground Railroad]. Fugitives often passed through that place, and generally stopped among the colored people ...

With that, he introduced speaker William Switala, a 52-year borough resident, retired educator and author of three books about the Underground ... were known as station masters.

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– An important stop of the underground railroad was right here in the Midstate. William Goodridge, the ...

The Underground ... railroad, which in our world was a network of safehouses and routes that Black people used to escape slavery, is an actual subterranean train system with stations, cars ...

The Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township will be open to the public on a limited basis starting later this month, according to a news release.

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad ... the train stopped at the station they took the boy forcibly from his master although the child cried ...