Historical Marker
Honorable Daniel J. OHern
Historical marker location:
175 Monmouth Street, Red Bank, New Jersey
( Marker is at the intersection of Monmouth Street and Bridge Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Monmouth Street.)
Marker installed: 2014
(1930 2009).
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.