North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association & Museum

02/01/2023

https://mynbc5.com/article/saint-michaels-college-hosting-discussion-on-untold-stories-during-the-jim-crow-era/42726743

With Black History Month upon us, Saint Michael's College held a discussion Tuesday night unpacking untold stories of those that dealt with immense racial violence during the Jim Crow era.

02/20/2022

It’s often physical hideouts that come to mind in Northern New York when one thinks of the Underground Railroad.

02/02/2022

https://wptz.com/article/a-patch-of-history-students-highlight-franklin-countys-role-in-underground-railroad/38955436

12 area locations part of 'scavenger hunt' to learn more

12/30/2021

. Today represents the fourth day of Kwanzaa. On each day of Kwanzaa, celebrants reflect on one of seven principles. The fourth principle is Ujamaa - or Cooperative Economics. As a young woman, Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben Ross taught her how to handle an oxen team in order to haul timber on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Known to outwork her male counterparts, Tubman was able to “hire out” her services to gain a small income for herself. Sometime in the 1840’s Tubman hired a lawyer to check the official records concerning her mother’s enslavement. Through this, she proved that her mother, Harriet “Rit” Ross, should have been freed in the early 1830’s. The skills she learned from her father helped secure her mother’s freedom.
Photo Credit: NPS

12/04/2021

10/05/2021

Thank you to ECAC for supporting our Solomon Northup Day event!

ECAC attended the monthly meeting of the Essex County Board of Supervisors, to thank them for their generous support of the Arts in Essex County. We proudlly shared this video with them:, celebrating the Arts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0l7HjmPyRg

09/26/2021

The Emancipation and Freedom Monument — two 12-foot bronze statues of a man and a woman holding an infant newly freed from slavery — was unveiled in Richmond, the former Confederate capital.

09/19/2021

Sharing the Champlain Valley's story as a 'gateway to freedom'

09/18/2021

Our tenth anniversary celebration is today at 2 pm!

09/10/2021

Since 2019, states across the country have declared September as International Underground Railroad Month in an effort to highlight and bring awareness to the Underground Railroad stories in the United States and beyond. Check out the routes of the Underground Railroad below. Agents on the Champlain Line of the Underground Railroad assisted fugitive slaves in western Vermont and seven Northeastern New York counties—Washington, Saratoga, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Franklin, and St. Lawrence. Throughout the region, agents provided fugitives with food, clothing, safe places to rest and medical attention. Many times they paid for the cost of their transportation to the next station.

Photo Credit: NPS Photo