October 15, 2009
Dear Neighbors,
I read from a website a house once existed across the street from Slater Mill that was a "stop" on the Abolitionist Underground Railroad during the 1840's and 1850's. The website claimed the house existed near the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue and Leather Street. This area of the Underground Railroad "stop" is now the parking lot for the Blackstone Valley Heritage Corridor Visitors Center. Neighbors, please confirm or deny this.
What other sites existed in Pawtucket. as part of ex-slave Harriet Tubman's social movement to send escaped slaves to New England and Canada?
If what the website said is true, why is there no commemoration of the Underground Railroad at Slater Mill?
Peace,
Ludlow1
