Before the Civil War, many Southern Ohioans worked secretly as conductors on the-
Adams said.
As Adams began to research more stops, she realized that the history of the Underground Railroad was related to the history of the region.
- who's living where and who's related to whom she said.
Adams and the other members of the center have documented several Underground Railroad stops in the Athens area, but there are still many possible stops that have yet to be confirmed.
To verify that a place was once an Underground Railroad stop, the building must be the appropriate age, and the people who lived there had to be sympathetic to the abolitionist cause, Aiken said. The center uses maps, tax records, census information and local stories to authenticate new sites.
(There's) still a lot of research to be done
Adams said. Athens itself is not documented the way it should be.
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