The Underground Railroad In Lyme Township, Huron County / The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad In Lyme Township, Huron County, also, The Underground Railroad. . , The Underground Railroad In Lyme Township, Huron County , Historic Lyme Village is helping to preserve some of the local history related to the Underground Railroad. The Seymour House, which is now located in this recreated village, was one of many stations in Lyme Township that helped give shelter and safe passage to those en route to Canada. At least eight settlements in the Firelands region, including Lyme, served as regular stops on the Underground Railroad. Runaways were often fed and hidden during the day and concealed under wagonloads of farm produce as they were moved from station to station, usually at night. Several citizens of Lyme maintained strong abolitionist beliefs, including: Calvin Barnard, Worthington Nims, John Seymour and Abner Strong, all of whom served at one time or another as conductors., The Underground Railroad , The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad, but 8 system of loosely connected safe havens where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disguised, and instructed during their journey to freedom. Although this movement was one of America's greatest social, moral, and humanitarian endeavors< the details about it were often cloaked in secrecy to protect those involved from the retribution of civil law and slave-catchers. Ohio's history has been permanently shaped by the thousands of runaway slaves passing through or finding permanent residence in this state.