Emerson Camp No. 53

Historical marker location:

100 N Park Ave, Fremont, Ohio

( Memorial is on North Park Avenue north of Croghan Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1932

1898 - 1902.

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.