Richard Mine

Historical marker location:

75 Teabo Road, Wharton, New Jersey

( Marker can be reached from Teabo Rd. west of St Bernards Road, on the right when traveling west.)

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.