On April 2, 1853, 28 men, women, and children fled slavery in Boone County for freedom in the North. The 28 were aided by united efforts from the Underground Railroad in Cincinnati, Northside and College Hill. Local historians Kathy Dahl and Betty Ann Smiddy from the Hamilton Avenue Road to Freedom Committee discuss the escape, one of the largest ever from the area, and other Underground Railroad stories that followed the Hamilton Avenue route and the communities of Northside, College Hill, North College Hill and Mount Healthy. Several of these sites were recently added to the National Parks Service Network to Freedom listings.
1 p.m. Saturday. Free, but reservations required. Taft Museum of Art, 316 Pike St., Downtown, hamiltonavenueroadtofreedom.org.
This article appears in Jan 7-14, 2015.
