B&O Railroad Museum Recognized As Underground Railroad Site

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The B&O Railroad Museum has been recognized by the National Parks Service arsenic a Network to Freedom Underground Railroad Site, the depository announced connected Tuesday.

The depository besides received a $200,000 assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities to make a imperishable grounds connected the enslaved radical who traveled done the railroad’s Mt. Clare Station connected their mode to freedom.

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At slightest 8 radical seeking their state are known to person gone done the presumption connected their mode north, the depository said.

One, Henry “Box” Brown, endured a 27-hour travel successful a container marked arsenic “dry goods” with holes chopped for air.

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In different wide publicized escape, Ellen Craft dressed arsenic a achromatic antheral planter and had her husband, William, airs arsenic a servant, the depository said.

“We are profoundly honored to person this designation from the National Park Service and for our tract to beryllium officially accepted arsenic portion of the National Network to Freedom Sites, it is simply a work we instrumentality seriously,” said Kris Hoellen, Executive Director the B&O Railroad Museum.

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The imperishable exhibit, sharing the stories of state seekers and the relation the carnal railroad played successful the Underground Railroad, is acceptable to unfastened successful outpouring 2022, Hoellen added. Grant funds volition besides let unit to behaviour much probe connected different enslaved radical who whitethorn person traveled done Baltimore connected their mode to freedom.

CBS Baltimore Staff