Stout House

Historical marker location:

12 Washington Avenue, Berlin, New Jersey

( Marker is on Washington Avenue, 0.1 miles Jackson Road, on the right when traveling north.)

c. 1856.

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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.