Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

505 Main Street, Griswold, Iowa

( Memorial is at the intersection of Cass Street and Main Street (Iowa Highway 92), on the right when traveling north on Cass Street.)

Marker installed: 1992

In the mid-1800s, Iowa was a major hub for the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to freedom in the North.