the Gammon House is one of only three existing sties in the state that served as a safe house on the Underground Railroad while owned by a free person of color. In 2022, the volunteer-led ...

In time, a secret, informal network of safe houses and volunteers seeking to assist fleeing slaves was cobbled together. By 1840, it began being called the Underground Railroad. Its ranks grew ...

“Sanctuary Road,” which Campbell wrote with composer Paul Moravec, is about the Underground Railroad, a network of people and places that helped more than 500,000 enslaved African-American ...

A group of mostly volunteers are working to overhaul Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad's steam locomotive, the only ...

Harriet Tubman was the trailblazing leader of the Underground Railroad, which helped to free 70 enslaved people from the South to the North. Archaeologists with MDOT said the findings from an ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

now owned and used by the Abilene and Smoky Valley Railroad, is undergoing a major overhaul, with volunteers leading the way. Per regulation by the Federal Railroad Administration, every steam ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Keep Bossier Beautiful will join forces Saturday with the Bossier Parish Police Jury for Operation Clean Sweep. It is an annual event to help clean up litter around the city.

Contractors had to halt work on Railroad Street when they found that underground pipes were not as deep as they were shown on engineering drawings years ago. The mayor added that gas companies and ...

Operation Clean Sweep is a parish-wide clean up that includes elected officials, local residents, and volunteers. Operation Clean Sweep will begin at 8 a.m. on March 22. The cleanup happens just ...

In 2017 and ’18, he was the general chairman of the entire volunteer operation. “At that point, they kind of put you out to pasture,” Hoffman says, laughing. Only, he signed up to volunteer ...