The Underground Railroad in Ohio Grant School Grade 4 Miss Somoles

Lakewood City Schools Lakewood Public Library Elementary School Pathfinders

Virginia Hamilton Ohio Reading Road Trip: Listen to the song, get sheet music and extension activities for the book, Follow the Drinking Gourd. Also included, Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt.

Literature Learning Ladders: Themes and Literature Circles
The Underground Railroad makes an excellent topic for an interdisciplinary, thematic, reading unit. This project could be adapted for many levels. Consider combining this theme with quilts.
Kick off your unit with a History Happens song called "On An Underground Railroad" that includes the sound files and movie.

Underground Railroad - Ohio History Central

Ohio Historical Society - Underground Railroad Information Station

Case History Kit (Ohio History Teachers) from the Ohio Historical Society

"Ohio Was Free, Not Safe" Cincinnati Enquirer article by John Johnston

The Underground Railroad Courier-Journal article by Darlene Young

The Infography About the Underground Railroad - Provides links to useful sources

Ohio's Role in the Underground Railroad - Kelton House in Columbus, Ohio

The Underground Railroad in Southeast Ohio: Stratton House Inn, Flushing, Ohio

With Miles to Go Before I Sleep - Our Journey on the Underground Railroad (Webquest)

Ohio's Underground Railroad to Freedom

Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts, Oberlin, Ohio

Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary Select List of Sites to see the list of Ohio sites.

The Underground Railroad in Southern Ohio

The Underground Railroad...Through Mt. Pleasant, Ohio

The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com

National Underground Freedom Center, Cincinnati

Books:

• J973.7115 BRILL
  Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad. Brill, Marlene Targ.
• J973.7115 GORRELL
  North star to freedom : the story of the Underground Railroad. Gorrell, Gena K.
• J973.7115 HAMILTON
  Many thousand gone : African Americans from slavery to freedom. Hamilton, Virginia.
• J973.7115 HANSEN
  Freedom roads : searching for the Underground Railroad. Hansen, Joyce.
• J973.7115 HEINRICH
  The Underground Railroad. Heinrichs, Ann.
• J973.7115 LEVINE
  If you traveled on the underground railroad. Levine, Ellen.
• J973.7115 RAPPAPORT
  Freedom river. Rappaport, Doreen.
• J973.7115 SIMON
  Escape to freedom: the Underground Railroad adventures of Callie and William. Simon, Barbara Brooks.
• J973.7115 UNDERGROUND
  The Underground Railroad: life on the road to freedom. Hansen, Ellen.

Audio/Visual:

• DVD 973.7
  Underground Railroad. Michaels, Susan.

Lakewood Connection:

A marker at Lakewood Park (at the top of the walkway to the Lake) commemorates the Underground Railroad. The inscription on the marker reads:

The Underground Railroad
“Freedom’s Last Station”
On or near this site, and at the mouth of Rocky River, escaped slaves from the South waited for boats that would take them to Canada in the days before the Civil War.
This marker is placed in their memory, so that their quest for freedom will never be forgotten.

This marker was donated to the City by Robert and Gary Rice and dedicated November 3, 2006.