The National Park Service added 10 listings to its Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, including historic sites, cemeteries, a museum and an exhibit. More than 900 listings now span 41 states, Washington, D.C., Canada and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Michigan's additions include Henry Bibb's Detroit listing and the Asher and Catherine Aray homesite in Ypsilanti. Bibb escaped enslavement and became an abolitionist. Their farm helped freedom seekers heading to Canada; Pittsfield Township's history calls Asher an important Underground Railroad conductor and says the farm was one group's final stop before Canada. Georgia's entries include McDonough Memorial Cemetery, where freedom seekers Anthony and Halloway Crockett are buried, and the San Miguel de Gualdape site, where about 100 enslaved Africans revolted in 1526. The NPS calls it the earliest known slave revolt in what is now the southeastern United States.
Other listings are Maryland's Brown-Cummens Escape Site, where separate group escapes occurred in 1847 and 1854; Iowa's Old City Cemetery, where abolitionists Samuel Luke Howe and Charlotte Perrin Howe are buried; the Eliza Winston Exhibit in Minneapolis, about her successful 1860 court fight for freedom; the Midwest Underground Railroad Network in Illinois; an Ohio historical marker honoring conductor David Adams; and Oklahoma's Black Creek Freedmen's Museum. The network also includes programs and research or educational facilities, and some properties are privately owned and not open to the public.
