Historical Marker
Jacque Mercer
Historical marker location:
31 N Michigan Ave, Atlantic City, New Jersey
( Marker is on North Michigan Avenue just south of Arctic Avenue, on the left when traveling south.)
Litchfield, AZ. Miss America 1949.
New Jersey played a significant role in the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African American slaves to escape to freedom in the North. Many abolitionists in New Jersey helped fugitive slaves, including Harriet Tubman, who is known to have traveled through the state.