A hidden passageway at Manhattan’s Merchant’s House Museum may be New York City’s earliest Underground Railroad site.

For the first time in over a century, historians say a new stop on the Underground Railroad has been discovered, fully intact ...

Hidden under a built-in dresser in a former home in the East Village is a narrow crawlspace, which historians have recently ...

The Underground Railroad was a secret pathway to freedom for enslaved people escaping north, through woods, tunnels, private ...

Enslaved Africans with dreams of being free found safety in the heart of NYC. To the naked eye, the 4-story brick row house ...

For the first time in more than 100 years, a fully-intact underground railroad site has been discovered in Manhattan.

Small opening cut into floor at Merchant’s House Museum indicates site was probably used as ‘safe house’, experts say ...

The home is the first site in Kane County to be verified as a designated safe house through a National Park Service initiative, the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, a program created ...

A previously unknown site connected to the Underground Railroad was discovered in Manhattan this week. The Merchant's House ...

This is the most significant find in historic preservation in my career, and it’s very important that we preserve this.” ...

A passageway hidden below a dresser at the Merchant’s House Museum had long been a mystery. Then researchers learned that the home’s original builder was an abolitionist.

Now, it’s the county’s first safe house to be verified as part of the initiative, and only the second site in Kane County on the list — Newsome Park in Elgin was also designated by the National Park ...