Rockhill Property

Historical marker location:

Pittstown, New Jersey

( Marker is on County Route 513 near County Route 579, on the right when traveling south.)

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.