NORRISTOWN, PA – Montgomery County Parks, Trails, and Historic Sites announced today that Peter Wentz Farmstead has been officially recognized by the National Parks Service (NPS) as a National Underground
UA joins National Underground Railway Network with its Nelson Hackett Project
UA joins National Underground Railway Network with its Nelson Hackett Project
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.
The project, headed by associate history professor Michael Pierce, provides digital history about Nelson Hackett. In 1841, he escaped enslavement in Fayetteville and fled to Canada, where he expected to be free. But he was extradited and returned to bondage in the U.S. His case energized abolitionists, who fought to change Canada’s extradition policies so no other freedom-seekers would meet Hackett’s fate.
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From the UA news release:
“Inclusion in the National Park Service Program literally puts Fayetteville on Freedom’s map,” Pierce said. “It brings national attention not only to Hackett and the region, but also to the University of Arkansas and its efforts to promote broader understandings of the past.”
Fort Barrancas area recognized as Underground Railroad Site
Special to the Press Gazette/USA TODAY NETWORK
GULF BREEZE Fort Barrancas Area was accepted into the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom on April 23.
Located on Naval Air Station Pensacola, the 64.06-acre Fort Barrancas Area is managed by Gulf Islands National Seashore.
The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom is a federal program that commemorates the stories of the men and women who risked everything for freedom and those who helped them. It honors, preserves, and promotes the history of resistance to enslavement through escape and flight worldwide.
April 26, 2021
Among 16 sites that were announced as additions to the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, Friday is a building in Knoxville steeped in history.
The old Knox County Courthouse in Knoxville was the site of several legal cases stemming from the 1842 escape of Susan “Sukey” Richardson, her three children, and Hannah Morrison who were held in bondage in southern Illinois, drawing important attention to the existence of slavery in a “free” state.
The Knox County Courthouse in Knoxville hasn’t been a legal building since shortly after 1873 when the county seat moved to Galesburg
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