Historical Marker
Kaiten Type II
Historical marker location:
78 River Street, Hackensack, New Jersey
( Marker can be reached from the intersection of River Street and Bridge Street, on the right when traveling north.)
(Means = Turned Towards Heaven). WWII Japanese Suicide Human Torpedo.
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.