George Greene

Historical marker location:

409 3rd Avenue Southeast, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

( Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Ave. SE and Cedar Rapids Trail, on the right when traveling east on 3rd Ave. SE.)

Marker installed: 2001

1817 1880. A Founder of Cedar Rapids.

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.