Milestone

Historical marker location:

425 Springfield Pike, Wyoming, Ohio

( Marker is on Springfield Pike (Ohio Route 4), on the right when traveling south.)

of the Hamilton, Springfield and Carthage Turnpike. established 1834.

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.