Jean DeLannoy

Historical marker location:

1551 OH-232, Point Pleasant, Ohio

( Marker can be reached from Ohio Route 232 just west of Back Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1972

The Ohio River, which forms the state's southern border, 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 before the Civil War.