The Great Central Depot

The Great Central Depot (HM2KBG)

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N 43° 2.827', W 76° 8.904'

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The Freedom Trail

— The Underground Railroad —

The Underground Railroad: What Was It?Traveling by foot, wagon, boat, or railroad, between 100,000 and 150,000 African Americans sought freedom in Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean or the northern U.S. before the end of U.S. slavery in 1865. People did not travel underground, but for its relative secrecy and speed, this flight to freedom became known as the Underground Railroad.
Syracuse: The "Great Central Depot"Syracuse was the "great central depot" of the Underground Railroad in New York State. Here, thousands of freedom seekers found help from a multi-racial group of men and women — centered in Methodist, Congregational, Unitarian, Quaker, and African Methodist Episcopal Zion churches. Many freedom seekers went on to Canada, but many settled in Syracuse and bought property on the north side or near east side.
1850s: Syracuse "A Free City"By the 1850s, the UGRR operated openly in Syracuse, in defiance of the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. People celebrated Syracuse as "a free city," and "the Canada of the United States." When federal marshals captured Missouri freedom seeker William "Jerry" Henry in October 1851, many Syracuse citizens successfully rescued him, and the federal government never again tried to capture a freedom seeker locally. Newspapers



regularly carried notices of fugitives who passed through the city on "this valuable and mysterious Railroad." In 1857, the Syracuse Standard reported that "this road was never doing a better business than at this time."
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HM NumberHM2KBG
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Placed ByPreservation Association of Central New York, City of Syracuse, and Onondaga Historical Association
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Date Added Wednesday, September 4th, 2019 at 5:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 406466 N 4766686
Decimal Degrees43.04711667, -76.14840000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 43° 2.827', W 76° 8.904'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds43° 2' 49.62" N, 76° 8' 54.24" W
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