Four Maryland Sites Added To National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Four Maryland sites person been added by the National Park Service to the National Underground Railroad Network To Freedom, a programme promoting locations associated with enslaved radical who escaped to freedom.

Mount Clare Railroad Station astatine the B&O Railroad Museum, Elkridge Furnace astatine Patapsco Valley State Park, a workplace that historically utilized enslaved labour and a erstwhile plantation were added to the program, the Maryland Office of Tourism said Monday.

“The stories of state seekers, who risked everything to assertion their liberty, animate america each clip we reappraisal Network to Freedom applications,” said National Park Service Deputy Director Shawn Benge. “The caller listings punctual america of the powerfulness Underground Railroad histories clasp contiguous and we are anxious to enactment alongside our caller members sharing Underground Railroad past with the public.”

The B&O Railroad Museum announced successful October the presumption had been chosen aft researchers determined astatine slightest 8 radical seeking their state went done the presumption connected their mode north.

According to a tourism pamphlet connected the state’s Network to Freedom sites, Elkridge Furnace utilized slaves, indentured servants and convicts to marque iron. At slightest 5 radical escaped from the site. Some were captured and brought back, lone to flight again.

Both the workplace and erstwhile plantation are not yet accessible by the public.

Belle Vue Farm successful Havre de Grace is wherever Eliza Howard, her parent and siblings were enslaved earlier fleeing to state successful the mid-1840s, the tourism bureau said. They established a caller location successful Christiana, Pennsylvania, tract of a 1851 battle betwixt escaped Blacks and a national marshal trying to seizure escaped erstwhile slavers.

In 1849, 14-year-old Henry Massey escaped from the Stoopley-Gibson Plantation successful Chester, the tourism bureau said. Five years later, helium was identified successful Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and, aft being convicted successful a trial, was returned to his enslaver.

The Harford County Parks & Recreation Department purchased Belle Vue Farm successful 2020 and is successful the readying stages of opening the tract arsenic a park, the authorities tourism bureau said.

The Stoopley-Gibson Plantation is present the tract of the Gibson’s Grant development. Tours and interpretive signs are being planned, the the Maryland Office of Tourism said.

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Other Network to Freedom sites successful the authorities see the Turkey Point Farm and Light Station successful North East, the Lizzie Amby Escape Site / Dr. Alexander Hamilton Bayly House successful Cambridge, and the William Still Interpretive Site successful Denton.