A Guiding Light

Historical marker location:

Heislerville, New Jersey

( Marker can be reached from Lighthouse Road, 0.1 miles west of E Point Road, on the left when traveling west.)

Aids to Navigation. Maritime History.

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.