Thomas W. Harvey

Historical marker location:

Painesville, Ohio

( Marker is at the intersection of Mentor Avenue and Wood Street, on the right when traveling north on Mentor Avenue.)

Marker installed: 2000

(1821-1892).

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.