Freedom Over Slavery

Historical marker location:

4500 Market Street, Boardman, Ohio

( Marker is at the intersection of Market Street (Ohio Route 7) and Newport Drive, on the left when traveling north on Market Street.)

Marker installed: 1978

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.