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Washington County, Ohio Links - Underground Railroad
WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO HISTORY & GENEALOGY LINKS

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY & THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

RESEARCH OF HENRY BURKE  
Book:  Escape of Jane, by Henry Burke & Dick Croy  (Read it: html or pdf document)
Henry Burke's Connection To Robert Carter III (The 1st Emancipator of who lived at Nomini Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia)  (See where you can purchase the book about Robert Carter III on the PUBLICATIONS section of this website)
     This "WONDERFUL" site is packed with lots of educational goodies!!  Site includes:  
Articles by Henry Burke    Belpre, Ohio Underground Railroad    Burke Family Emancipated        Muskingum River UR     Henry's Family      Curtis Family     Francis Dana Gage & Sojourner Truth     Jesse Owens Track Shoe     African Art-Collection     Slavery     A Cronology of Slavery     The Middle Passage     Slavery in Virginia     The Underground Railroad in Southeastern Ohio     Southeastern Ohio African-Americans in the Civil War (1861-1865)     Nimrod Burke & Charles Burke (Civil War)     President Lincoln's Emancipation 1863     Cemeteries     Henry's Horses (His other hobby)     Wildlife in Appalachia      Links    And Much More!!!
Washington County Underground Railroad - Purchase the book, written by Henry Robert Burke & Charles Hart Fogle.  A must read for anyone doing research of the UGRR in Southeast Ohio!
Watershed Books - A website where you can purchase books written by Henry Burke, Charlie Fogle & Dick Croy
OTHER WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY
Book:  The Color Line In Ohio, 1923 (Click on the pages to turn)
     (Several Washington County, Ohio names mentioned)
Ohio and The Underground Railway - Part 1A   Part 1B   Part 2
"I'll Fight Until I Die" (Great Story about Henderson Hall, Wood Co., Virginia & Marietta, Ohio)
Quilt Codes Myth -vs- Fact  #1   #2

 

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