Underground Railroad
Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania
Marker Inscription
This old stable was a station on the Underground Railroad. Here fugitive slaves were hidden, fed, and aided in reaching the next station on their journey.
Erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
The Story
This old stable served as a station on the Underground Railroad, the secret network of safe houses that helped enslaved people escape north toward freedom in the decades before the Civil War. Here freedom seekers were hidden, fed, and helped on their way to the next station in a chain that stretched, hand to hand, toward Canada. Aiding fugitives was dangerous and illegal work, carried out quietly by people who risked prosecution to defy slavery.
Why it matters
It bears witness to the everyday courage of ordinary Americans who resisted slavery in secret, one of the most powerful expressions of conscience in the nation's history.
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