Historical Marker
Hardware Industry
Historical marker location:
1300 West 9th Street, Cleveland, Ohio
( Marker is on West 9th Street just north of West St. Clair Avenue, on the left when traveling north.)
Warehouse District Anthology.
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.