![]() ![]() “They come away wowed by looking back in time and then they come out looking forward,” said Sally Bradley. They used the home’s location to help ferry formerly enslaved persons across Lake Erie and into Canada. “We’re talking about man’s humanity towards man, kindness, doing the right things for the right reasons,” said Richard Dana, an adjunct professor at the Kent State Ashtabula campus and a former president of the Hubbard House Museum Board of Trustees.Ībolitionists William and Katharine Hubbard built their homestead in the early 1940s. ![]() ![]() The brick building, situated above Lake Erie on Walnut Boulevard, was a stopping point for hundreds of freedom seekers. “I’m not sure the community realizes what we have here in Ashtabula County, in regards to the Underground Railroad,” said Patrick Colucci, the Superintendent for Buckeye Local Schools.Īshtabula is home to the Hubbard House. Churches, homes and businesses in the region acted as some of the last stops along the Underground Railroad. ASHTABULA, Ohio - During a dark chapter in American history, Northeast Ohio became a beacon for enslaved persons escaping the antebellum south. ![]()
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