Blue Jacket Town

Historical marker location:

Bellefontaine, Ohio

( Marker is at the intersection of South Main Street (U.S. 68) and East Columbus Avenue, on the left when traveling south on South Main Street.)

Marker installed: 1930

Ohio Revolutionary Memorial Trail.

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.