Introduction: Freedom Trail in Auburn and Cayuga County - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)
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| Sites throughout Cayuga County, NY | | ||
About: Cayuga County is pointed like an arrow directly north through the heart of New York State, linking Pennsylvania with Lake Ontario and Canada. Along Cayuga and Owasco lakes, steamboats, lake schooners, stagecoaches, and farm wagons carried people as well as grain, wool, and pork from the small cities and rich farm country of the southern tier and the Finger Lakes to ports along the Erie Canal, railroad, and Seneca Turnpike.
Hundreds and perhaps thousands of African Americans, both men and women, escaped from slavery to freedom through Auburn and Cayuga County in the thirty-five years before the Thirteenth Amendment, officially proclaimed by Secretary of State William Henry Seward on December 18, 1865, ended slavery in the United States.
This self-guided driving tour takes visitors to over 30 sites, including three National Historic Landmarks, noted for their role in the Underground Railroad in Cayuga County.
Text courtesy Freedom Trail in Auburn and Cayuga County
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