The Johnson House
Built in 1768 for John Johnson. This was home to three generations of a Quaker family who worked to abolish slavery and improve living conditions for freed African Americans. In the 1850s the house was a station on the Underground Railroad. Here and in the smaller buildings on the property, men and women escaping slavery found shelter on their way to freedom.
Marker is at the intersection of Germantown Avenue and Washington Lane, on the right when traveling south on Germantown Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
