Erie J. Sauder

Historical marker location:

22611 State Route 2, Archbold, Ohio

( Marker is on Ohio Route 2, 0.4 miles east of N. Defiance Street (Ohio Route 66), on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2001

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.