"These statues were used as markers on the Underground Railroad throughout ... is that the use of red and green as signal colors dates back to World War I railroad signals, long after the late ...

Phelps, lived near Elmwood, Illinois. It's believed a barn on his farm was most likely used as an Underground Railroad signal station. According to the Knox College Underground Railroad Freedom ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Imagine yourself on a ship bound for Staten Island on a breezy day. Only you’re not enjoying yourself, because you sit hungry in a cold cramped space shared with cargo.

Quilters have been copying patterns believed to have been used as signals for the Underground Railroad even though historians say they can't find... The enduring story for Underground Railroad ...

But signalling generally is way overblown in Underground Railroad stories. There may have been localized signaling in a particular village or particular nation. But the idea of universal signals ...

Dr. Volz: "The Underground Railroad is one of the most interesting ... is boats would be on the river and they would use light signals to let people know when it was safe or not safe to leave ...

People involved in the Underground Railroad would signal a farm or home was safe any way they could. To quote Chris, it was “on-the-fly resistance.” It was a network of people and places ...

John, an American Presbyterian minister and outspoken abolitionist, often stood on that hill - Liberty Hill - and used a candle or lantern to signal ... known as the Underground Railroad ...

Maybe we picture this Underground Railroad as something that would work ... One common belief is the one about quilts being employed to relay signals and messages to fugitives passing through.

"And that is a symbol that they used in the Underground Railroad, the symbol with the lanterns. Somehow, they had their signals, so I have that there, and it glows at night," said Kathleen Smith.

which is something she might have done on a river bank to signal to the other side that she was there to be picked up to be taken to a safe house on the underground railroad.” Frederick Douglass ...

Today almost a million Americans make some kind of quilt, including replica Revolutionary War quilts, and, increasingly Underground Railroad Quilts. One of those was on display at QuiltCon in ...