The list of Underground Railroad sites includes safe places where people helped enslaved individuals in 19th century North America before and during the American Civil War. These sites also include places connected to people who worked to help all Americans gain their freedom in the movement to end slavery in the United States.

The list of officially confirmed Underground Railroad and Network to Freedom sites is organized by state or province and by location.

Canada

The Act Against Slavery of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free upon arriving in Upper Canada. A network of paths connected the United States to Upper and Lower Canada.

• Amherstburg Freedom Museum – Amherstburg. The museum uses historical objects, Black heritage displays, and videos to explain how Africans were forced into slavery and later traveled to Canada.
• Fort Malden – Amherstburg. One route to Ontario involved crossing Lake Erie from Sandusky, Ohio, to Fort Malden. Another route was traveling across the Detroit River into Canada and then to Amherstburg. Many escaped enslaved people lived in the area, and Isaac J. Rice became a missionary who operated a school for Black children.
• Buxton National Historic Site and Elgin Settlement – Chatham, Ontario. The Elgin settlement was created in 1849 by Reverend William King, a Presbyterian minister, with 15 former enslaved people. King inherited 14 enslaved people from his father-in-law, later acquired another, and freed them all. He intended the settlement to be a safe place for escaped enslaved people. The Buxton Mission was established there.
• Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site and Dawn Settlement – Dresden. Rev. Josiah Henson, a former enslaved man who escaped slavery with his family via the Underground Railroad, helped found the Dawn Settlement in 1841. The settlement was designed to support Black refugees, offering education and skills training. The community exported tobacco, grain, and black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain.
• John R. Park Homestead Conservation Area – Essex. The Park Homestead was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
• John Freeman Walls Historic Site – Lakeshore. John Freeman Walls escaped enslavement in North Carolina and moved to Canada. The Refugee Home Society provided money to buy land, and he built a cabin. Church services were held there before the Puce Baptist Church was built. The site was also a final stop on the Underground Railroad. Walls and his family remained in Canada after the American Civil War.
• Queen's Bush – Mapleton. Starting in 1820, African American pioneers settled in Queen's Bush. Over 1,500 Black people established farms and created a community with churches and schools, which were taught by American missionaries.
• St. Catharines. Harriet Tubman lived in St. Catharines and attended the Salem Chapel for ten years. After escaping slavery, she helped others reach freedom in Canada. The town was a final stop on the Underground Railroad for many people.
• Sandwich First Baptist Church – Windsor. The church was built in Windsor, Ontario, just across the border from the United States, by Black people who moved to Canada to live freely. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1999 for its role in supporting its members and sheltering escaped enslaved people.

African-American people began settling in Nova Scotia in 1749.

• Birchtown National Historic Site – Birchtown. This settlement was created by Black people from Colonial America who fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War in exchange for their freedom. Birchtown was the largest community of free Black people in British North America during the late 18th century.
• Africville – Halifax. Black people settled in Africville starting in 1848. They did not have the same services as white people, such as clean water or sewers, and lived on non-arable land. Some residents built a community with a Baptist church, a school, stores, and a post office. A plan was later made to relocate families and destroy the town.

United States

• Barney L. Ford Building — Denver. This building is linked to Barney Ford, an escaped slave who became a very successful businessman. He worked to help Black people vote in Colorado. He used the Underground Railroad to escape slavery and supported its activities.

• Francis Gillette House — Bloomfield
• Austin F. Williams Carriagehouse and House — Farmington. Built in the mid-1800s, this property was named a National Historic Landmark because of its role in the famous Amistad case and as a stop on the Underground Railroad.
• First Church of Christ, Congregational — Farmington. This church was a central place for the Underground Railroad. It was involved in the famous case of African slaves who rebelled on the Spanish ship La Amistad. After the slaves were freed in 1841, they came to Farmington.
• Polly and William Wakeman House — Wilton. The Wakemans helped runaway slaves. A hidden tunnel under their home could be opened with a trapdoor. They guided people on late-night trips to other towns on the Underground Railroad.

• Camden Friends Meetinghouse — Camden. This Quaker meeting house, built in 1806, was used by members who helped people escape slavery. John Hunn, one of them, is buried in its cemetery.
• John Dickinson Plantation — Dover
• New Castle Court House — New Castle
• Appoquinimink Friends Meetinghouse — Odessa
• Corbit–Sharp House — Odessa
• The Tilly Escape site, Gateway to Freedom: Harriet Tubman's Daring Route through Seaford — Seaford
• Friends Meeting House — Wilmington
• Thomas Garrett House — Wilmington

• Blanche K. Bruce House
• Camp Greene and Contraband Camp
• Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
• Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
• Leonard Grimes Property Site
• Mary Ann Shadd Cary House
• Pearl incident at 7th Street Dock

• Negro Fort, also known as British Fort and Fort Gadsden — near Sumatra, Franklin County
• Fort Mosé — St. John's County

• First African Baptist Church — Savannah
• Dr. Robert Collins House – William and Ellen Craft Escape Site (NRHP site) — Macon

• Old Rock House — Alton
• New Philadelphia Town Site — Barry
• Quinn Chapel AME Church — Brooklyn
• Lucius Read House — Byron
• Galesburg Colony UGRR Freedom Station at Knox College — Galesburg
• Beecher Hall, Illinois College — Jacksonville
• Graue Mill — Oak Brook
• Dr. Hiram Rutherford House and Office — Oakland
• Owen Lovejoy House — Princeton
• John Hossack House — Ottawa
• Dr. Richard Eells House — Quincy
• Maple Lane (Reverend Asa Turner House) – Quincy
• Mission Institute Number One – Quincy
• Mission Institute Number Two – Quincy
• Oakland (Dr. David Nelson House) – Quincy
• Blanchard Hall, Wheaton College — Wheaton
• Thede Home – Geneseo Historical Museum — Geneseo

• Levi Coffin House — Fountain City
• Bethel AME Church — Indianapolis
• Eleutherian College Classroom and Chapel Building — Lancaster
• Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House — Madison
• Madison Historic District — Madison
• Town Clock Church (now Second Baptist Church) — New Albany
• Quinn House, within Old Richmond Historic District — Richmond
• Phanuel Lutheran Church — Southeastern Fountain County

• First Congregational Church — Burlington
• Horace Anthony House — Camanche
• Reverend George B. Hitchcock House — Lewis vicinity
• Henderson Lewelling House — Salem
• Todd House — Tabor
• Jordan House — West Des Moines

• Fort Scott National Historic Site — Bourbon County
• John Brown Cabin — Osawatomie

• Harriet Beecher Stowe House — Brunswick
• Abyssinian Meeting House — Portland
• Maple Grove Friends Church — Fort Fairfield
• Private Home – 55 High St Brownsville, ME

• President Street Station — Baltimore
• Harriet Tubman's birthplace — Dorchester County
• Riley-Bolten House — North Bethesda
• John Brown's Headquarters — Sample's Manor

• African American National Historic Site — Boston
• William Lloyd Garrison House — Boston
• Black Heritage Trail, including the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House — Boston
• William Ingersoll Bowditch House — Brookline
• Mount Auburn Cemetery — Cambridge
• The Wayside — Concord
• George Luther Stearns Estate — Medford
• Nathan and Mary Johnson House — New Bedford
• Jackson Homestead — Newton
• Ross Farm — Northampton
• Dorsey–Jones House — Northampton
• Liberty Farm — Worcester

• Guy Beckley — Ann Arbor. He promoted the Underground Railroad and was a station master. His house is part of the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
• Erastus and Sarah Hussey — Battle Creek
• Second Baptist Church — Detroit
• Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House — Schoolcraft
• Wright Modlin — Williamsville, Cass County. His home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. He traveled to find escaped slaves and brought them to Cass County. His actions angered slaveholders in Kentucky, who led a raid on Cass County in 1847. He was also key in the South Bend Fugitive Slave case.

• Mayhew Cabin — Nebraska City

• Holden Hilton House — Jersey City
• Thomas Vreeland Jackson and John Vreeland Jackson house — Jersey City
• Mott House

Other articles and references

• List of Underground Railroad Locations
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Records Related to the Underground Railroad
• Bike Path Related to the Underground Railroad

• Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2008). The Underground Railroad: A Book About People, Places, and Activities. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-8093-8.

• Map Showing Underground Railroad Locations
• Photo Collection Along the Underground Railroad
• American Abolitionists