~ Buffington Island
and the Underground Railroad ~

Buffington Island was an often used site from around 1810 through 1861, where fugitive slaves from Virginia crossed the Ohio River to Ohio's Underground Railroad, which then carried them north to Canada.

Professor Wilbur H. Siebert's Map
of the Ohio Underground Railroad

Special thanks to Henry Burke, historian of the Gen. B.D. Fearing Camp # 2, Sons of Union Civil War Veterans and the Southeastern Ohio Coordinator for the Ohio Underground Railroad Association , for sharing this information with us and supplying a copy of Professor Siebert's map.

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