Interurban Transportation

Historical marker location:

121 E Main St, Russells Point, Ohio

( Marker is on East Main Street (Route 366), on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2017

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.