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Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged Residence and Thompson AME Zion Church
Harriet Tubman (1820/21?--1913), a renowned lead...
White Horse Farm
White Horse Farm, built around 1770, was the lif...
Oakdale
Oakdale was built in 1840 by Isaac and Dinah ...
Bethel AME Zion Church
A pillar of Reading's black community for 160 ye...
Putnam Historic District
Putnam is one of the oldest settlements in the s...
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is one of...
Samuel and Sally Wilson House
From the 1840s to the 1870s, well-to-do merchant...
Col. William Hubbard House
William Hubbard (1787-1863) moved to Ashtabula, ...
Daniel Howell Hise House
The Daniel Howell Hise House was an important st...
Rush R. Sloane House
This house, built in the early 1850s, was the ho...
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Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged Residence and Thompson AME Zion Church
Harriet Tubman (1820/21?--1913), a renowned leader in the Underground Railroad movement, established the Home for the Aged in 1908. Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman gained her freedom in 1849 when she escaped to Philadelphia. Working as ...
White Horse Farm
White Horse Farm, built around 1770, was the lifetime home of politician and prominent abolitionist Elijah Pennypacker (1802-1888) and a depot on the Underground Railroad. In 1831 Pennypacker was elected to the House of Representatives and lobbied on the ...
Oakdale
Oakdale was built in 1840 by Isaac and Dinah Mendenhall, two leading abolitionists who helped to form the Society of Progressive Friends at Longwood in 1853 as a result of Kennett Meeting's failure to respond to the abolition cause. ...
Bethel AME Zion Church
A pillar of Reading's black community for 160 years, the Bethel AME Church stands as a testament to the hard work and accomplishments of free African Americans during the era of slavery. Built in 1837, Bethel is the only ...
Putnam Historic District
Putnam is one of the oldest settlements in the state of Ohio, established around 1800, and annexed into the adjacent city of Zanesville in 1872. The town's residents and institutions played an important role in the Underground Railroad and ...
James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead
The James and Sophia Clemens Farmstead is one of the oldest and last remaining agricultural resources in one of Ohio’s earliest black settlements, Longtown (Greenville settlement). This farmstead was the home of James Clemens (1781-1870), who was the founding ...
Samuel and Sally Wilson House
From the 1840s to the 1870s, well-to-do merchants and businessmen moved to the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, making it a prestigious rural village characterized by large homes on spacious lots. The presence of two colleges in College Hill ...
Col. William Hubbard House
William Hubbard (1787-1863) moved to Ashtabula, Ohio, from Holland Patent, New York, around 1834 to join relatives who owned and operated a successful lumber yard and warehouse in the town. Before moving to Ashtabula, Hubbard served in the War ...
Daniel Howell Hise House
The Daniel Howell Hise House was an important stop on the Underground Railroad as escaping slaves passed though Salem, Ohio, an industrial Quaker community. It was also the home of noted local abolitionist Daniel Howell Hise and his wife ...
Rush R. Sloane House
This house, built in the early 1850s, was the home of Rush R. Sloane (1828-1908), a Sandusky, Ohio, lawyer, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad participant. The son of a local jeweler who arrived in Ohio around 1815, Sloane started studying ...
