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Underground Railroad: Routes
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The efficiency of the Underground Railroad was in its versatility; like the Internet, the web of loosely connected safe houses allowed for re-routing in case searcher, hunters or spies blocked access to the next regular station. Such is the case for this secondary route, which bypassed Philadelphia entirely (illustrated in blue in the map above).
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Underground railroad stations that belonged to whites provide examples of interracial cooperation and goodwill. Burlington served as a short stop, where horses were changed, after a rapid twenty-mile trip from Philadelphia to Princeton. The stop would be known as Station A. Bordentown, known a Station B, served as a continuous connection to the line from Philadelphia to Princeton. Another line ran east through Station B, which followed the northern route. Its southern route remained independent for sixty miles before it intersected with the Bordentown corridor. Another branch of the Philadelphia line extended through Bucks County, Pennsylvania, to Trenton, then followed a northern course to New York.
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Citizens of Ross County and its county seat and first state capital Chillicothe were active in the Underground Railroad, as several escape routes from the Ohio River intersected in the county. The Ross County Historical Society has recently organized a permanent exhibit on Ross County’s contribution to the Underground Railroad effort. A visit to this well-preserved historic community is always worthwhile.
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The number of possible sites and structures associated with the Underground Railroad story is immense. The Underground Railroad is every route the enslaved took, or attempted to take, to freedom. It is a vast network of paths and roads, through swamps and over mountains, along and across rivers and even by sea, that cannot be documented with precision.
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Many people associated with the Underground Railroad only knew their part of the operation and not of the whole scheme. Though this may seem like an unreliable route for slaves to gain their freedom, hundreds of slaves obtained freedom to the North every year.
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