Oldham County Ky

A Tour on the Underground Railroad along the Ohio River

• Author(s): Nancy Stearns Theiss

• Categories: History

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2020-02-03
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• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Running for 664 miles along Kentucky's border, the Ohio River provided a remarkable opportunity for the enslaved to escape to free soil in Indiana and Ohio. The river beckoned fugitive slave Henry Bibb onto a steamboat at Madison, Indiana, headed to Cincinnati, where he discovered the Underground Railroad. Upriver from Cincinnati, a lantern signal high on a hill from the Rankin House in Ripley, Ohio, stirred others to flee for freedom. These stories and more along the borderland of the Ohio River also served as the setting for Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which became an inspiration of human resistance. Author Nancy Theiss, PhD, takes readers on a tour through American history to places of courage and sacrifice.

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

• Author(s): Kentucky Historical Society

• Categories: Kentucky

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2006
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Criminal Justice Agencies in Region

• Author(s): United States. National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service

• Categories: Criminal justice, Administration of

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1970
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Ohio River: Charts, Drawings, and Description of Features Affecting Navigation, War Department Rules and Regulations for the River and Its Tributaries, Navigable Depths and Tables of Distances for Tributaries

• Author(s): United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1916
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The Ohio River

• Author(s): United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers

• Categories: Ohio River

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1935
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• Publisher: Unknown

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