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Abolition & Underground RR Topic

 
By Mark Hilton, March 11, 2017
Frederick Douglass Hall
1 Alabama, Macon County, Tuskegee Institute — Frederick Douglass Hall — 1904
2 Alaska, Juneau Borough, Juneau, Downtown Juneau — William Henry Seward
3 California, San Francisco City and County, San Francisco, Japantown — Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park — 1814 - 1904
4 Colorado, Denver County, Denver, Central — Barney Ford Building — 1863 — Lower Downtown Walking Tour —
5 Connecticut, Capitol Region, Farmington — Farmington and the Freedom Trail
6 Connecticut, Capitol Region, Hartford — Emancipation — Preston Jackson, 2006 — Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk at Riverfront —
7 Connecticut, Capitol Region, Hartford, Downtown — Frederick Douglass
8 Connecticut, Capitol Region, New Britain — GR2 — Tales from the City / New Britain Water Department — / An engineering marvel — New Britain Historic Walking Trail —
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9 Connecticut, Capitol Region, West Hartford — CT4 — Jude — Witness Stone —
10 Connecticut, Lower Connecticut River Valley Region, Deep River, Deep River Center — The Underground Railroad
11 Connecticut, Lower Connecticut River Valley Region, Middletown — The Abolitionist Movement
12 Connecticut, Lower Connecticut River Valley Region, Old Lyme — OL28 CT119 — Warwick — Witness Stone — 1723-1793 —
13 Connecticut, Northwest Hills Region, Torrington — John Brown Birthplace
14 Connecticut, South Central Region, Guilford, Guilford Center — Beecher House — 1770
15 Connecticut, South Central Region, Guilford, Guilford Center — Third Congregational Church — 1844
16 Connecticut, South Central Region, New Haven, Downtown — “Make Us Free” — Amistad Memorial
17 Connecticut, South Central Region, New Haven, Downtown — Jehudi Ashmun
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18 Connecticut, South Central Region, New Haven, Dwight — Roger Sherman Baldwin — A New Haven notable
19 Connecticut, South Central Region, New Haven, Dwight — Simeon Jocelyn — A New Haven notable
20 Connecticut, South Central Region, New Haven, Wooster Square — Jocelyn Square — Reported damaged
21 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, New London — "Do you want to be slave or free?"
22 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, New London — First Step to Freedom
23 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, New London — 6 — Haley Houses & Racial Diversity — Hempstead Historic Neighborhood
24 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, New London — Hempstead Historic District
25 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, New London — Middle Passage to New London
26 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, New London — The Amistad Incident — Galvanizing Abolitionists
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27 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, New London — The Amistad — Black Heritage Trail City of New London
28 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, Stonington, Mystic — Captain Paul Cuffe, 1759 - 1817 — The Sea Connects Us — Mystic Seaport Museum —
29 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, Stonington, Mystic — George Greenman House — Mystic Seaport Museum
30 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, Stonington, Mystic — Mystic Has a Complex and Engaging History. — The Sea Connects Us — Mystic Seaport Museum —
31 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, Stonington, Mystic — Thomas Downing, Oyster King — The Sea Connects Us — Mystic Seaport Museum —
32 Connecticut, Southeastern Region, Stonington, Mystic — Waterways to Freedom - Maria Weems and Leah Green — The Sea Connects Us — Mystic Seaport Museum —
33 Connecticut, Western Region, New Milford — "A Rough Road to Freedom" — Underground Railroad in New Milford Installed 2012 — New Milford Historical Society & Museum —
34 Connecticut, Western Region, New Milford — History of the Underground Railroad — "A Rough Road to Freedom" — Ray Crawford
35 Delaware, Kent County, Camden, Camden Wyoming — John Hunn — 1814 - 1894 — Quaker Abolitionist —
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36 Delaware, Kent County, Camden, North Murderkill Hundred — KC-133 — Brinkley Hill
37 Delaware, Kent County, Camden, North Murderkill Hundred — KC-41 — Camden
38 Delaware, Kent County, Camden, North Murderkill Hundred — KC-73 — Camden Friends Meeting — Burial Place of John Hunn
39 Delaware, Kent County, Camden, North Murderkill Hundred — KC-110 — Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church
40 Delaware, Kent County, Dover, East Dover Hundred — Continuity & Progress — Historically Happening — Dover, Delaware —
41 Delaware, Kent County, Dover, East Dover Hundred — The Dickinsons in Delaware — Welcome to the John Dickinson Plantation — First State National Historical Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
42 Delaware, Kent County, Magnolia, South Murderkill Hundred — KC-91 — Warner Mifflin — 1745 - 1798 — Reported permanently removed
43 Delaware, Kent County, Magnolia, South Murderkill Hundred — KC-91 — Warner Mifflin 1745-1798
44 Delaware, Kent County, Willow Grove, North Murderkill Hundred — KC-118 — Samuel D. Burris
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45 Delaware, New Castle County, Middletown, Saint George's Hundred — NC-210 — Former Site of the Alston and Hunn Farms
46 Delaware, New Castle County, Newark, Iron Hill Park — The Civil War 1861 - 1865 — Iron Hill Museum & Science Center — Delaware Academy of Science —
47 Delaware, New Castle County, Odessa, Saint George's Hundred — NC-90 — Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House
48 Delaware, New Castle County, Smyrna, Blackbird Hundred — NC-89 — Clearfield Farm
49 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington — "The Rocks" and the Underground Railroad — The Delaware Underground Railroad —
50 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington — NCC-248 — Abraham Shadd Family
51 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington — Escape by Sea — Wilmington's Maritime Underground Railroad
52 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Quaker Hill — NC-76 — Meeting House 1816 — Religious Society of Friends
53 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Quaker Hill — NC-88 — Thomas Garrett — Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad
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54 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Quaker Hill — NC-125 — Wilmington Friends Meeting — Burial Place of Thomas Garrett
55 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — NC-128 — Freedom Lost — Reported permanently removed
56 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — NCC-128 — Freedom Lost
57 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — Harriet Tubman — (born Araminta Harriet Ross; 1820 - March 10, 1913)
58 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — The Big Quarterly — Riverfront Wilmington — Reported permanently removed
59 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — The Big Quarterly — Riverfront Wilmington
60 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — The Tubman-Garrett Riverfront Park
61 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — The Underground Railroad — Riverfront Wilmington
62 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — The Underground Railroad
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63 Delaware, New Castle County, Wilmington, Riverfront — Thomas Garrett — (b. August 21, 1789 - d. January 24, 1871)
64 Delaware, Sussex County, Georgetown — Delaware Citizens Who Fought for the South — Reported permanently removed
65 Delaware, Sussex County, Georgetown — Delaware Citizens Who Fought for the South
66 Delaware, Sussex County, Milton — 326 Union Street
67 Delaware, Sussex County, Seaford — SC-233 — Gateway to Freedom: The Tilly Escape
68 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Capitol Hill — Frederick Douglass — (1817 - 1895)
69 District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Capitol Hill — Freedmen’s Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln — or Freedom’s Memorial
70 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — Resilience and Resistance — Hallowed Ground — Rock Creek Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
71 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — Seeking Freedom — Hallowed Ground — Rock Creek Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
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72 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — Soldiers, Sailors, and Refugees of War — Hallowed Ground — Rock Creek Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —
73 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Bloomingdale — Metropolitan Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church — The Gate Way to Freedom
74 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — W.3 — Asbury United Methodist Church — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail — Reported permanently removed
75 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — W.3 — Asbury United Methodist Church — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail —
76 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — W.4 — New York Avenue Presbyterian Church at Herald Square — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail — Reported permanently removed
77 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — W.4 — New York Avenue Presbyterian Church at Herald Square — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail —
78 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — The Stevens School Augmented Reality Exhibit at 2100 L Street
79 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — W.5 — The United States Treasury — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail —
80 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — Written with Water — The Story of Franklin Park — National Mall and Memorial Parks, Franklin Park —
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81 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — After the Civil War — Dupont Circle — Diverse Visions | One Neighborhood — Reported unreadable
82 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — Dupont Circle Mural Key — Reported permanently removed
83 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — 336 — From 1890 to 1910 — Dupont Circle — Diverse Visions | One Neighborhood —
84 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Foggy Bottom — Leonard A. Grimes — (1815 - 1873)
85 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Georgetown — "The bramble and trees…had made them invisible"
86 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Georgetown — Herring Hill
87 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Georgetown — Mt. Zion Cemetery / Female Union Band Society Cemetery — 2527 Q Street Northwest
88 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Judiciary Square — e.1 — Senator Daniel Webster — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail — Reported permanently removed
89 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Judiciary Square — e.3 — Senator Daniel Webster
90 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — John Logan House — A Memorial to General and Senator John A. Logan — Champion in the Struggle to Preserve the Union and Establish Racial Justice in America —
91 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — John Logan House — A Memorial to General and Senator John A. Logan — Champion in the Struggle to Preserve the Union and Establish Racial Justice in America —
92 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Mount Vernon Square — 15 — On the Path — Midcity at the Crossroads — Shaw Heritage Trail —
93 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Mount Vernon Square — Second Baptist Church — 816 Third Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —
94 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, North Cleveland Park — The Rest — Tenleytown, DC — Country Village to City Neighborhood —
95 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Old Soldiers Home — President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home — A National Trust Historic Site —
96 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — e.2 — Ending Slavery in Washington — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail —
97 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — Frederick Douglass 1817 - 1895 — The Extra Mile — Points of Light Volunteer Pathway —
98 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — Harriet Tubman circa 1820 - 1913 — The Extra Mile — Points of Light Volunteer Pathway —
99 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — 5850-2019 — Julia Ward Howe — 1819 - 1910
100 District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — .4 — The Roots of Freedom and Equality — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail — Reported permanently removed

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