Historical Marker
Solitude House
Historical marker location:
High Bridge, New Jersey
( Marker can be reached from River Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Taylor Steelworkers Historic Greenway.
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.