Elizabeth Lawrence

Historical marker location:

63 Catalpa Avenue, Perth Amboy, New Jersey

( Marker is on Catalpa Avenue.)

Women's Heritage Trail. Kearny Cottage.

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.