Birmingham / Ironville

Historical marker location:

203 Paine Avenue, Toledo, Ohio

( Marker is at the intersection of Paine Avenue and Genesee Street, on the left when traveling east on Paine Avenue.)

Marker installed: 1987

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.