Locking in Commerce

Historical marker location:

1025 Canal Locks Trail, Maumee, Ohio

( Marker is on North River Road, 0.6 miles west of Mohawk Place, on the right when traveling west.)

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.