Spaulding Cemetery / Plank Road

Historical marker location:

Milan, Michigan

( Marker is on Plank Road near Darling Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Michigan played a key role in the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to freedom in the 19th century. Detroit was an important hub for the movement, and Michigan was the first state in the Northwest Territory to outlaw slavery in 1837.