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Caption: Marker detail: Railroad Notices
Additional Description: From the Syracuse Standard, October 2, 1854 (top) and November 25, 1854 (bottom).

The subscriber is constantly receiving, by the Underground Railroad, travelers direct from the south. Many of them would like to stop on this side of the Lake while others prefer to go to the land of Queen Victoria to spend the winter. Those stopping on this side would like to get homes for the winter.
Every person — man or woman — wanting help would do well to apply to the agent, or at the store of A. Bates or Ira H. Cobb.
Any person willing to help these, the poorest of God's poor, in the way of food or clothing, can do so by leaving it at either of the above named places, or with the agent of the Underground Railroad.
J. W. LOGUEN
293, East Genesee St.

Fugitive Slaves. — We understand sixty-one fugitive slaves have passed through this city on the way to Canada since the 1st of January. This branch of the Underground Railroad appears to be in first rate order, and the conductors all at their posts. — Chronicle.
Submitted: September 4, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p491305
File Size: 1.940 Megabytes

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