Here Stood Lincoln

Historical marker location:

31 South Third Street, Columbus, Ohio

( Marker can be reached from U.S. 40, 0.1 miles south of U.S. 33.)

Marker installed: 1934

1809 -1865.

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.