North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association - African American Historic Places (sitios de interés)
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| Coming soon to Ausable Chasm, New York | | ||
About: The North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association (NCUGRHA) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the preservation, interpretation and promotion of the history of the Champlain Line of the Underground Railroad. The Champlain Line encompassed the geographical corridor through which Northeastern New York’s Waterways to Freedom flow - the Upper Hudson River, the Champlain Canal and Lake Champlain. Moses Roper, Lavinia Bell and Samuel R. Ward are three of the many who fled to freedom on these waterways.
NCURGHA is partnering with the Town of Chesterfield to establish a Visitor's Interpretive Center on the Lakes to Locks Passage and the Great Northeast National Scenic Byway. The center will breathe new life into the Estes House, a historic Victorian home at Ausable Chasm, NY. The Center will be the home of the North Star Underground Railroad Museum starting in 2010. NCUGRHA publishes a biannual Newsletter, the North Country Lantern, available here.
| Photo and text courtesy of NCUGRHA. |
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