Zanesfield

Historical marker location:

2817 Sandusky Street, Zanesfield, Ohio

( Marker is on Sandusky Street, on the right when traveling north.)

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.