Underground Railroad stop in Cincinnati   Save
Works Progress Administration, Ohio Guide Photographs
Description: Photograph of an opening in the back porch of a house at 408 E. Sixth Street in Cincinnati, Ohio, taken November 12, 1936. The house was reported to be a stop on the Underground Railroad, the system that slaves used to escape to freedom. Escaping slaves may have hidden in the location seen here while waiting to move to the next station. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04734
Subjects: Hamilton County (Ohio); Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)